That's a very head in the sand view. I shall carry on finding Devon cousins and solving problems with DNA + paper records. Mike On 10/06/2016 22:57, blackmore terry via wrote: > One thing I've noticed with regard to DNA testing, while it does prove that > there is a link between two people with known DNA, there is one flaw. Unless we > dig up all known named graves in say Devon and take DNA samples we are unlikely > to ever know exactly who in ancient Devon we could actually be descended from. > DNA will show exactly where the generations join, but not who they were. To me > there is only one possible way of knowing our ancestory is down the female line. > Only one person can be the mother of a child, but any male can be the father. > This still depends on if the information we have is of the correct mother. > Unless we invent time travel, sorting out our family pedigrees will always be > one of a lot of guess work. > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > 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 >