John,
Thank you, so very much, for clearing up my questions.? In other words, we will never
know...? Man, that hurts!!
Jan
-----Original Message-----
From: John Chandler <john.chandler(a)alum.mit.edu>
To: carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 4:46 pm
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Fw: Family Tree DNA - Special Pricing for Surname Projects
jan wrote:
If George Bradford Carpenter was the son of UNKNOWN, and my brother
submitted his DNA, it MIGHT show a surname unrelated to the
Carpenter lines??
There's one missing piece of information. Is George Bradford Carpenter
in the top line of your brother's pedigree? To put it another way, is
your brother in an unbroken male line of descent from GBC? If so, then
a test on your brother would be more-or-less equivalent to a test on
the unknown father of GBC. If you're lucky, such a test would show one
or more possible matches with one or more possible surnames of that
unknown father. It wouldn't be fair to say, however, that such a test
would show THE surname of the father, even if there were only one
match, since we are very far from having an exhaustive coverage of all
possible Y chromosomes.
Also, I have a place in my line where the two Carpenter lines merge!
William Vincent, b. 1638, Amesbury, England, s/o Thomas Vincent and Fridgwith
Carpenter
m. Priscilla Carpenter, b. 1648, d/o William Carpenter and Elizabeth
Arnold.
How would THIS show???? Would it show two separate lines?? Or, would
he end up in a group with unspecified markers?
Well, no matter how you look at it, Priscilla Carpenter is a female and
has no Y chromosome, and the same is true of Fridswith Carpenter. Neither
one of them is on the top line of your brother's pedigree, and therefore
neither one is relevant to this type of DNA testing.
John Chandler
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