That's what mine were to 4-5th cousins.
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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 17:25:28 -0400
To: campbell(a)rootsweb.com
From: dw1campbell(a)comcast.net
Subject: Re: [Campbell] FamilyTreeDNA Family Finder
My hits were ALL 4-5th cousins and greater. Bummer.
At 04:34 PM 10/2/2012 -0400, you wrote:
>Cousins,
>
>Genealogy using DNA just took a giant step forward. That is the
>FamilyTreeDNA(FTDNA) Family Finder. You submit the usual scrapings from
>inside your cheek and FTDNA takes something like 70,000 samples from the
>other 23 chromosomes. With the first match that they told me about they
>said that this person was either a first or second cousin to me. Turned
>out to be a female who was my first cousin once removed (she and my
>father were first cousins). I had quite a few matches at the second to
>third cousin level.
>
>Only a few of my matches were Campbells. This is because they are not
>following just the male or female line as in the Y-DNA or the
>mitochondrical DNA.
>
>I have great hopes for making significant progress in my genealogy
>research using this new tool. It isn't cheap at $289 but I believe that
>it will pay off greatly as more people have this test and we work to
>find common ancestors.
>
>If you are serious about your genealogy research and have been butting
>your head against a brick wall as I have for over 30 years I would
>encourage you to look into this.
http://www.familytreedna.com
>
>Jim Campbell - G-G-Grandson of John D. Campbell (1812-1890)
>
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