One must always be aware that in some areas of old Germany, when a deceased male left no male heirs, and his widow remarries, the new husband will change his surname to be the same as the deceased husband to get possession of the property. This will break the DNA line for any additional children. This was very common in the Lippe area to the north. At 03:24 PM 7/18/2011, you wrote: >From: "Ralph Taylor" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [A-L] ALSACE-LORRAINE Illegitimate births? >To: <[email protected]> > >Bob wrote: "If there are male direct line descendants, you can have a yDNA >test done and possibly discover matches with the European ancestors." ... ____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Jumping 3000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL3241/4e24b83f1c857916d0st02duc

Or, if a family had no sons, a son-in-law would be picked to take over; he would adopt the surname, which his sons and their descendants used. There's at least one family in my ancestry where this happened every couple of generations for a while. Marsha L. Ensminger --- On Mon, 7/18/11, Fred H Held <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Fred H Held <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [A-L] Illegitimate births? > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, July 18, 2011, 3:48 PM > One must always be aware that in some > areas of old Germany, when a > deceased male left no male heirs, and his widow remarries, > the new > husband will change his surname to be the same as the > deceased > husband to get possession of the property. This will break > the DNA > line for any additional children. This was very common in > the Lippe > area to the north. > > > At 03:24 PM 7/18/2011, you wrote: > >From: "Ralph Taylor" <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [A-L] ALSACE-LORRAINE Illegitimate > births? > >To: <[email protected]> > > > >Bob wrote: "If there are male direct line descendants, > you can have a yDNA > >test done and possibly discover matches with the > European ancestors." > ... > > ____________________________________________________________ > Penny Stock Jumping 3000% > Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free > today! > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL3241/4e24b83f1c857916d0st02duc > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm  > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message >