Me and Me and Me and You and Me

A great, if long, read for anyone who has ever entertained or succumbed to the draw of geneology and/or DNA testing.

This particular part denoted my own feelings on the matter, although I do feel it would be fun just to see what happens:

Furthermore, over the past two centuries, it was not uncommon for last names to be changed, misspelled, or misattributed. Records were frequently lost, recreated, or even forged. We think of our identities as relatively fixed now because we have traceable identification cards, birth certificates, and social security numbers from a very early age. But none of that existed until recently.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beastly-behavior/201801/the-meaning-and-meaninglessness-genealogy