I did one of these tests and I think I remember them saying that the source populations they look at to compare with yours have been normalized or whatever from the 1500's...basically before massive amounts of human migration. So if you have ‘Russian’, they share DNA with people who lived in Russia 500 years ago.

I poked around and found this amazing digital collection of diaries, photos, scrapbooks, etc. meant to represent the lives of the women who attended Seven Sisters colleges. Its fabulous

yeah especially in a dry martini! euch. throw more vermouth in there and maybe it’d be something that makes sense?

Ambivalence about getting married is a good point, but I bet they were so casual about their guys because courtship was so formalized. I mean, then if a young man liked a lady, they would ask them out. Just like that. And it wasn’t a big commitment until they ‘went steady’. Its kiiiind of not that different today,…