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The problem about wearing strange headgear at work (pictured) is that when I turn up in the morning wearing a paper party hat because it's my birthday, nobody bats an eyelid: I'd been there two hours before anybody asked me why.

Deep ancestry!

I posted recently about getting my DNA analysed for my birthday. I mentioned there that it's been shown that many cohanim do derive from a common ancestor, "Y-chromosomal Aaron". It's struck me that working on the assumption that I share this priestly genotype (to be proved when I get the DNA analysis done [edited to add: Now proven!]), I can already say interesting things about my deep ancestry...

( Of deserts and seriously long time-spans, but, alas, no woolly mammoths )

So that's what I now know about the deep ancestry of my putative patrilineal ancestors. I wonder if the deep ancestry of my matrilineal line in any way matches it. Now I have to wait to find out.