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At the bottom, it says You had a trillion genealogical ancestors 40 generations back, which far exceeds the total number of people who have ever existed, so most of your ancestors appear many many times in your genealogical tree.

The links in my other comment talk a bit about measured genetic similarity (which should imply relatedness), it turns out there is a lot of mixing.



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