Alli, good luck in your quest! Best, Fran Chinquapin On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Alli :) <iamcheroke@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah I think you understood me correctly. > My cousin & I have the same mutual relatives to an extent. > Our dbl. great grandparents are Phariss > Her great grandpa was James a brother to my great grandma Martha. > For my cousin it goes: James (male), female, female, female. > She took the DNA test & without realizing it, she traced her mother's > genetic's, which is ok, but it traced back to her great grandma's lineage > instead of the great grandpa's. > > For me, I'm opposite. I descend from the female side until my dad & then > me. > So for me, it'd automatically trace my mom's side. So I have a cousin that > descends from a sister to my paternal grandma who will take the test & I'm > going to see if I can get an aunt that is a sister to my dad to take the > test. Then I'll have my mtDNA traced for that side of the family which is > suppose to carry the NA blood. > > I haven't found where we're not connected, but still trying to prove the > connection :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: cherokee-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cherokee-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Fran West-Powe > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 11:46 AM > To: iamcherokee@gmail.com; CHEROKEE@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] [CHEROKEE-DNA] Question > > Alli, _if_ I understand correctly what you have written, a male lineal > descendant of your cousin's grandpa must submit his YDNA for the NA lineage > to show. (do I understand correctly that your cousin's grgrandpa was Native > American? If I mis-understood, then the above info does not apply.) > > I really should not be so positive about that statement so let me revise > and > say that it was via my paternal nephew's YDNA that we found our other > Native > lineage. Yes, we descend from two People. > > Fran > Chinkapin > > > ======*====== > List archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHEROKEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >