I ran across an interesting item on DNA research on
another of my families....Kinney/McKinney. It seems
that one researcher had her father tested and received
no one else as a match. But then she was notified of a
match with SMITH.
She then learned that the Smiths believed an early
Smith was a stepson - not a biological Smith. The
Smiths had traced the likely false paternal event to a
county in KY. The Kinney/McKinney researcher had
searched this Kentucky county for McK lines in the
past - but had found no paper trail to connect to her
line. She then arranged to have a McK tested who
descended from the Butler Co. line - and had a match
to that line - so that told her she is some how
related to the Butler County McK line.
In LDS records in Salt Lake City she found court
records of an affair between a McK and the woman who
later married Smith. No child is mentioned but with
this record, and the locale of the families, and the
DNA, the researcher is quite certain that a McK was
the father of the Smith child.
Here is my question to the Kinney DNA administrator
and her reply:
.....................................
> Does this mean that the DNA test facility would
notify
> you if your DNA matches to another family that
they're
> testing? ....for example, if you are John Doe and
your
> DNA has been submitted through the Doe family line,
> could your family DNA turn up as a particular Jones
> family rather than Doe because of your unknown
Jones
> ancestor?
Yes . . . Both participants have to have signed the
release form. They usually do. (What's the point of
testing if you don't want to connect with other
matches?)
However, in surname projects there's a Restrict to
Project Matches Only Code - and if a person has that
checked, they'll only see project matches
(and people out side won't see them either).
I tell everyone NOT to Restrict - except in some very
unusual cases.
For more about this (and the court record) see:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gkbopp/KINNEY/Research/LINES/156...
Pat Pulasky