Jeanne Beauvais's inquiry about Carpenter genetic testing implies recognition that
she's not eligible for the male-line, Y-DNA test. I'm puzzled, however, that no
one has advised her that, based on the ancestry provided in her posting (which goes back
and forth from male and female), she is not a candidate for the mtDNA test, either—that
is, unless she believes that her female ancestral line goes back through an early Rehoboth
Carpenter woman or the spouse of an early Carpenter man, and a reference sequence has been
established for that person or line, to which Jeanne can compare her test results. (Since
genetic genealogy is not my strong suit, I welcome corrections to my terminology and
analysis.)
The appropriate expression of the birth year of William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth,
incidentally, is not "b. 1605" (as per Jeanne's posting) but "b. ca.
1605." No record of his specific date of birth or baptism has been found, and any
such date appearing in the secondary literature (e.g., 23 May 1605) is a fabrication.
William2’s approximate birth year is calculated primarily from his age, 33, as reported a
few days before 2 May 1638 and recorded on that date in the passenger list of the _Bevis_
(after "some Dayes gone to sea").
Gene Z.
Thank you Gene for the corrections. Also I just found your recent works and haven't
made the corrections to my database yet.
Now, before this gets more confusing and I should have stated it more clearly the question
that I had wasn't about the Y DNA testing nor the MTDNA testiing, but about the Family
Finder "autosomal" DNA testing. (I'll just preface this with the fact that I
have been working with the genetics of Blood Groups as a Blood Bank technologist for to
many years to mention and that does include "old" paternity testing.) I'm
fascinated by the new molecular (DNA) testing that is becoming more available but is still
an new technology.
When I posed the question I knew I couldn't have the Y-DNA done nor would my mtDNA be
of any value to this list, because that is purely English. I was curious about the matches
that are coming up on the "autosomal" i.e. the non-sex (X or Y) linked
chromosomes. I think many of the companies are now offering this type of testing. While
this type of testing shows more mutations there are several areas or regions that do are
less likely to have mutations. The family finder matches that I have contacted on the
Carpenter lines are actually 5th and 6th cousins.
Jeanne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Zubrinsky" <genezub(a)aol.com>
To: carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:48:28 AM
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] FTDNA family finder
Jeanne Beauvais's inquiry about Carpenter genetic testing implies recognition that
she's not eligible for the male-line, Y-DNA test. I'm puzzled, however, that no
one has advised her that, based on the ancestry provided in her posting (which goes back
and forth from male and female), she is not a candidate for the mtDNA test, either—that
is, unless she believes that her female ancestral line goes back through an early Rehoboth
Carpenter woman or the spouse of an early Carpenter man, and a reference sequence has been
established for that person or line, to which Jeanne can compare her test results. (Since
genetic genealogy is not my strong suit, I welcome corrections to my terminology and
analysis.)
The appropriate expression of the birth year of William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth,
incidentally, is not "b. 1605" (as per Jeanne's posting) but "b. ca.
1605." No record of his specific date of birth or baptism has been found, and any
such date appearing in the secondary literature (e.g., 23 May 1605) is a fabrication.
William2’s approximate birth year is calculated primarily from his age, 33, as reported a
few days before 2 May 1638 and recorded on that date in the passenger list of the _Bevis_
(after "some Dayes gone to sea").
Gene Z.
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