Thank you for thinking of me, although I'm pretty focused on Y-DNA STR
testing, because it's so useful for working out problems in paper
genealogy, rather than questions of deep ancestry, as addressed in
this article. I have undergone autosomal testing, myself, twice:
once at 23andMe and once at FTDNA. The former says I'm 100% European;
the latter says I'm 85% European and 15% Middle Eastern. CARRICO
ancestry would in small part account for the latter because Haplogroup
J has its origin in the Middle East:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1181965/figure/FG2/
Of the eight long-standing brick walls in my genealogy, where I'm
stuck at the immigrant and using Y-DNA STR testing to break though,
I've "crossed the pond" with only one (my maternal grandfather's
STRAUB line). I would be discouraged, except that it appears to me
DNA testing, in general, is only just becoming widely accepted, thanks
in part to the TV celebrities who have been open about their testing.
The more of us who test, the more others will become comfortable with
the idea of being tested. I've taken every DNA test available to a
female for genealogical purposes, including my FMS (Full Mitochondrial
Sequence). It turns out, I'm my own unique twig on the mtDNA
Haplotree:
http://dgmweb.net/DNA/mtDNA-T-haplotree-DGM.html
My only match is a first cousin, whom I had tested as a check on
myself.
It may be frustrating that our CARRICOs have not yet "crossed the
pond," but unless Peter was the last living member of his family, we
will some day.
Diana
http://dgmweb.net/DNA/Carrico/CarricoDNA.html
From: Barry and Jeanne Murphey
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 2:13 PM
Hi Diana,
I thought you might be interested in this article,
if you haven't already seen it.
Jeanne Murphey