Hi y'all and greetings from California, My 2 cents worth... mtDNA is great and I've completed my second test, (the MVR2) but before you jump on that band wagon, just be aware that it's less genealogically helpful than the YDNA test for men. I won't go into the details, there are lots of sites to guide you in your decision making. Personally, I've enjoyed the pursuit they both have provided. Giselle EMBRY EMBRY of northern France -----Original Message----- From: eng-shropshire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-shropshire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ross G. H. Cotton Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:48 AM To: eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] DNA and Genealogy Diana Thanks for your viewpoint on DNA Y-Chromosome. Have you considered mtDNA that is used on females? I about to start into an experiment using mtDNA on my aunts and female cousins. Ross GH Cotton, Burlington ON CAN 905)639-2929 Genealogy of the COTTON surname is my Enigma. I haven't sent an attachment if the details are not mentioned above. Check out my Genealogy Web Page at www.skylinc.net/~rgcotton GOONS member responsible for tracking the family name COTTON, #1437 Coordinator for Cotton DNA testing Project, Worldwide, See http://home.comcast.net/~cottondna/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Diana Robinson To: eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:53 AM Subject: [ENG-SHROP] DNA and Genealogy As my first post to this list, I feel I must jump in to the debate on DNA testing. I think that people whose families have lived in Britain, or anywhere for that matter, for many generations, cannot understand what it is like to be a "Colonial", as we in Canada, Australia, NZ & the US are - we are genealogical orphans often with no paper trail to follow and sometimes our ancestors came many different countries. For us, DNA testing is perhaps the only way we can connect to our ancestral lines, in our lifetime. When I started at this game of family history, I knew very little about my mother's family and virtually nothing about my fathers. With a great deal of time and work I have put together a large and accurate (ie. fully documented) tree, but there were gaps and questions, so I badgered my brother to give a DNA sample to prove or disprove our relationship to a family of "three brothers who came from Yorkshire" and settled in Quebec. Other descendants of the brothers also had a test and it has shown conclusively that while 2 of these men were brothers, my ancestor was not even remotely related to them. Now I live in hope that some nice person somewhere will have his DNA tested and I will get the magical notification that we have shared a common ancestor within the last 2 or 3 generations, which will allow me to find our true ancestors. So, if your name is ROBINSON, get thee to a lab and have a test, please! Oh yes, this is the Shropshire list! This I am sure of: my family names are: BICKLEY, (Hordley, Ellesmere); and DAVIES, specifically looking for Samuel DAVIES who was an auctioneer by trade and was probably born C1800; his daughter Mary, b.C1830 was my gggrandmother, born Welshpool. Best wishes, Diana Robinson Winchester, Ont. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message