isolated population. This further reduces the likelihood that small amounts of migration would be detected. There is a vast amount of genetic information in the past. Almost all of it was lost. Genealogical ancestry is a real feature of the world, connecting us physically, genetically, and biologically to our ancestors. We are not usually, however, genetically connected in a direct way to most our distant ancestors. The few ancestors in our past that passed us DNA were the lottery winners. Of course,