Here's why I have ignored the matches with other surnames. I'm first concerned about the generation of who was who ca 1750 in those hills of North Carolina. Another 100 years of 40 generations back would be great and we could find that outside the US, but another 1000 years ... :-) FAMILY TREE DNA: If you compare the 12 marker result to someone else who does not have the same surname, but the scores match, you are most likely NOT recently related. When we use the term recently related, we are talking about a time frame within the last 1000 years or 40 generations, a time depth that accommodates the earliest known use of surnames. -----Original Message----- From: Patricia [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dover] DNA page I just wanted to let the DNA participants know that if they go to their DNA page at FamilyTreeDNA and click on update contact information about 1/2 way down the page there is a little box that is checked off. If you decide to uncheck the box you will see matches outside your surname project. So if you match someone with a different surname you could investigate that to see if your familes were living in the same place at some point. In case you didn't know about this option. Patricia ==== DOVER Mailing List ==== Dover list home page http://pages.cthome.net/familytree/

Yes, but there are events that take place outside of surnames. For example adoptions - where possibly a child's parent's die and they move in with their sister's family and then take on that surname. There are neighbors that raise children as their own, and children born out of wedlock and their mothers marry someone with a different surname and there are many more examples of how your relatives are not always carrying your surname. I think it likely that these events show up in anyones family and it never hurts to look into it further. Patricia ----- > Here's why I have ignored the matches with other surnames. I'm first > concerned about the generation of who was who ca 1750 in those hills of > North Carolina. Another 100 years of 40 generations back would be great and > we could find that outside the US, but another 1000 years ... :-) > > FAMILY TREE DNA: If you compare the 12 marker result to someone else who > does not have the same surname, but the scores match, you are most likely > NOT recently related. When we use the term recently related, we are talking > about a time frame within the last 1000 years or 40 generations, a time > depth that accommodates the earliest known use of surnames. >