Dear Family, This DNA requires a lot of study to understand which I know very little about but I will give you a little in site as to what I got back from the findings. As I understand it, on a 12 marker Y-DNA search, a mutation is very high after 6 to 8 generations. In other words, one of the marks will be different. Since Col. Wm. Garrard living in Virginia about 1740 is my son's 6th GGF and he is 38. We are talking 7 generations if he had children. That means the odds of a mutation is great in the old countries. The numbers I am about to post first tell the number of mutations, country, number of people that have DNA from that country and matches. 1 Mutation British Isles (512) 1 match 2 Mutations British Isles (512) 1 England (9472) 8 France (1173) 2 Germany (4251) 3 Ireland (5048) 4 Italy (1042) 2 Mexico (377) 2 Scotland (4057) 5 These are the closes ties in the world. In some of the other finding I got, I was struck by how many people in Iceland have ties to us from many centuries back. Terry Lee Garrard Sr.

Terry: It would be interesting to know the number of people we are related to. Way to many to even want to try to put their info in our family trees. I'm more interested in closer family. But, one of my first cousin's son married a Pakistani and they divorced so she took their daughter back to Pakistan with her. So my Garrard cousins have a Pakistani relative! Our President, George Walker Bush, is my 7th cousin twice removed through my Maupin family. My Maupin couple came to America at the same time as our Garrard couple. This is all so interesting but I'm not personally interested in DNA testing. I'm glad you were so we could clear up the myth! Oh, I might be interested in DNA testing if someone thought they might be related to me in a closer family line. I have 3 sons so am sure I could get one of them to do the testing. Thanks, again for sharing! Cuz Sandi --- TalkingTer@aol.com wrote: > Dear Family, This DNA requires a lot of study to understand which I know > very little about but I will give you a little in site as to what I got back > from the findings. As I understand it, on a 12 marker Y-DNA search, a mutation > is very high after 6 to 8 generations. In other words, one of the marks will > be different. Since Col. Wm. Garrard living in Virginia about 1740 is my > son's 6th GGF and he is 38. We are talking 7 generations if he had children. > That means the odds of a mutation is great in the old countries. The numbers I > am about to post first tell the number of mutations, country, number of > people that have DNA from that country and matches. > > 1 Mutation > British Isles (512) 1 match > > 2 Mutations > > British Isles (512) 1 > England (9472) 8 > France (1173) 2 > Germany (4251) 3 > Ireland (5048) 4 > Italy (1042) 2 > Mexico (377) 2 > Scotland (4057) 5 > > These are the closes ties in the world. > > In some of the other finding I got, I was struck by how many people in > Iceland have ties to us from many centuries back. > Terry Lee Garrard Sr. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GARRARD-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >