On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 2:43:30 PM UTC-4, taf wrote: > On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 11:23:26 AM UTC-7, Stewart Baldwin via wrote: > > On 6/3/2016 10:00 PM, nathanwmurphy via wrote: > > > Here is a 2013 article Dr. Brian Swann pointed out to me in the past when I asked that question on ISOGG's Facebook page: Bradley T. Larkin, "Y-DNA of the British Monarchy," Surname DNA Journal (2013). > > > > > > http://www.surnamedna.com/?articles=y-dna-of-the-british-monarchy > > > > I had already seen that article, which has some "red flags" that > > bothered me. > > Here is one that bothers me:"A Tudor Y-DNA signature has not been identified and there are no documented descendants after the 17th century. If a signature can be identified, however, there may be numerous living matches because the ‘Tudor’ surname is still common where the royal Tudors originated on the Isle of Angelsey in Wales. " In fact, the very first lines I would eliminate as possible direct lines to Tudor Kings would be people who somehow have carried the surname Tudor but yet 'forgotten' their connection to the royal and very notable Tudors. :)