You're quite welcome, Jeanne. The birth-date correction was directed as much to
unknown others as to you. Since widely held errors of long standing don't die easily,
I took your minor one as an opportunity to repeat a correction I've made before and
will probably make again.
Thank you for clarifying your inquiry. As I now understand it, you're interested in
knowing if there's a specific, Carpenter database of autosomal test results to which
you can compare your Family Finder results.
Although John R. Carpenter's reply didn't state it outright, the only Carpenter
DNA project is his: the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project. But if there are individual
Carpenter mailing-list subscribers who have results of a comparable autosomal test from a
company other than FamilyTreeDNA, perhaps they'll come forward now.
Gene
-----Original Message-----
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:18:26 +0000 (UTC)
From: jbeauvais3634(a)comcast.net
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] FTDNA family finder
To: carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
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