no male relatives to check..interested in dukes of argyle....
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From: "steven perkins" <scperkins(a)gmail.com>
To: <campbell(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Campbell] DNA - another alternative
Leonard:
I am a participant in the 23andme Relative Finder program. I
currently have 327 people who match me on various of my autosomal
markers. 53 of them are comparing genomes with me and I have
identified either the ancestral couple we share, or the common surname
we share with 6 of them. The relationships run from 3rd cousins to
10th cousins once removed. In the latter case it has confirmed our
descent from a couple in VA in the mid 1600s. This also allows me to
confirm some other descents from my paper documentation.
FTDNA's Family Finder will work in the same way. To get the most
benefit from using it you need to know as much as possible of your
full ancestry. I suggest that you have at least a 6 generation
pedigree chart to exchange with people who match you. One is
available here:
http://www.misbach.org/pdfcharts/pedigree_chart.pdf
that you can download, save, fill out and email to people who match
you. If you use genealogy software it can probably create the chart
for you.
Only you can decide if it is worth the cost, but I have found
23andme's Relative Finder useful and I expect to get even more
connections from FTDNA's Family Finder since the FTDNA database is
larger and most people in the database are genealogists.
Regards,
Steven C Perkins
(I have 9 DNA studies at FTDNA)
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Leonard Campbell <soup(a)dm.net> wrote:
caveat emptor!
Who was the person sending this along? The person selling it?
How is the DNA test going to show anything different than what the
current test is doing? How are the genes and the matches going to
show anything different?
One of the needs to show relationships is a large database of
information to compare. I'd want to see the data that the autosomal
chromosomes are a proven method to prove relationships before spending
"*$249* (what a deal!). And the testing for testing doesn't even
start until the middle of March. Almost sounds too good to be
true.........
At least the Campbell DNA project shows up front that this is not
possible and only shows probabilities.
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