A Carroll cousin of mine has been found by Y-DNA testing. He took part in the National
Geographic Genographic Project, and elected to have his Y-DNA results posted at the
Carroll Family Y-DNA project at FTDNA.
(Kit numbers coming from the Genographic Project will be coded with the letter
"N". In this case the kit number is N3016. Genographic tests only the same 12
markers that FTDNA does on their first panel.)
Kit number N3016 had a 12/12 match with kit number 27123, and you can see that both are
R1a. I contacted the email address for the N3016 participant - and low and behold he is a
previously unknown 1st Carroll cousin. The ancestor-in-common was born in 1834.
So, the technology works. Anyone else have this experience yet? It's quite
exhilarating...
Eric Olson
Carroll-DNA list administrator
ericbear(a)pcweb.net