Cliff Johnson Thank you for the advice and explaination of the testing of DNA and the markers. If one could afford to have it done in the first place, I guess the 67 marker might be worthwhile. However, my husband was cremated -finding he ashes floating in the ocean for the last 10 years, might be a tad bit hard to find to get a match for his to a family member, as to other make relatives , such as Father, he is National cemetery, in Farmingdale/Huntington LI, NY. The cost if getting a sample might be even harder, with cost of getting to the body that has been thee for 40 + years and might just upset the government as to why I wanted to dis-inter. Grandfather has been in Calvery since 1926, over 80 years and besides the cost of paying back cemetery costs of keeping the grave-site neat for a grave, I do not own, could also be a tad bit expensive, and as to a great- grandfather, he is buried somewhere in the London area of England since 1905. All of these things would have to be taken into consideration, Or is there an easier way to get the DNA????? Plus the fact that I have no idea if any other people with the same name are in the DNA testing program. Nor do I have any idea of where in Ireland my great grandparents were born or lived until they moved to England in the 1850's.

Pat, You're more than welcome - glad to be of some help. It takes a living male of the line in question to be tested for Y-DNA. Other than digging up someone, there is no way around it to the best of my knowledge. I know that this can be frustrating as several of my group members have emailed me about having a "garden party" some midnight to obtain a sample of one of our lines that died out years ago - all in good humor, of course, unless you read about us being caught...lol ;-) Good hunting, Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: "pat lewis" <carmodyp@bellsouth.net> To: <CountyCork-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:31 AM Subject: [CO CORK] DNA testing > Cliff Johnson > > Thank you for the advice and explaination of the testing of DNA and > the markers. If one could afford to have it done in the first place, I > guess the 67 marker might be worthwhile. > However, my husband was cremated -finding he ashes floating in the > ocean for the last 10 years, might be a tad bit hard to find to get a > match for his to a family member, as to other make relatives , such as > Father, he is National cemetery, in Farmingdale/Huntington LI, NY. The > cost if getting a sample might be even harder, with cost of getting to > the body that has been thee for 40 + years and might just upset the > government as to why I wanted to dis-inter. Grandfather has been in > Calvery since 1926, over 80 years and besides the cost of paying back > cemetery costs of keeping the grave-site neat for a grave, I do not > own, could also be a tad bit expensive, and as to a great- > grandfather, he is buried somewhere in the London area of England since > 1905. All of these things would have to be taken into consideration, Or > is there an easier way to get the DNA????? > Plus the fact that I have no idea if any other people with the same > name are in the DNA testing program. Nor do I have any idea of where in > Ireland my great grandparents were born or lived until they moved to > England in the 1850's. > Check out the Ireland GenWeb County Cork Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcor/ > It is a good place to find information related to your family research. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COUNTYCORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message