i would like to put in my penny's worth, my father is 74, i have already got my DNA tested, would it be worthwhile me asking my dad to get his DNA tested? john in Wicklow ----- Original Message ---- From: Cliff. Johnston <moments-in-time@comcast.net> To: countycork@rootsweb.com; CountyCork-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 17:41:20 Subject: Re: [CO CORK] DNA testing 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 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