Ton, Dutch Genealagist was suprised when I made a general comment about most people here in the UK not being able to go back very far in their ancestry. here is her reply--- my question to you is are the records in Holland really that good''I don’t understand your remark that few people can go back beyond four generations. I have traced most of my lines back ten to twelve generations. For the tenth generation, I have found about 800 of the 1,024 ancestors. I share DNA with many of their descendants. Endogamy does not show thousands of non-existant ancestors, it just makes cousins seem closer than they really are. I share DNA with some seventh through tenth cousins that appear as third to fifth cousins because of endogamy. We should always educate ourselves and use our own judgement to interpret the results.''