Colin, An excellent story showing the payoff for persistent, systematic work, utilizing all available tools. In my case, Y-chromosome DNA testing came after I had worked out my patrilineal pedigree. The pedigree has one link in New England for which I could find strong circumstantial evidence but no direct proof (http://donstonetech.com/StoneFamily/slides/JosStoneInBartlett.html, http://donstonetech.com/StoneFamily/slides/JosStoneInv3.html). The Y-DNA match (35/37 STR) with a well-documented descendant of the Massachusetts immigrant Gregory Stone supports (but doesn't prove, of course) the pedigree I worked out; he would be a 9th cousin. A number of earlier genealogists had tried to connect my ancestor Joseph Stone of Connecticut with the family of the brothers John and William Stone, immigrants to Guilford, Connecticut. (Traces of this still appear on the Web.) However, the Stones of Guilford are Y-DNA haplogroup R1b1a1a2 (R-M269), whereas I am Y-DNA haplogroup I1a3 (I-Z63). The latest presentation of my patrilineal ancestry and Y-DNA is at http://donstonetech.com/StoneChart. This version has some information about paleoclimatology, cultural developments, etc., to make it more interesting. For me the DNA testing was a catalyst for expanding my horizons backward in time. For example, I had previously mostly ignored information about ice ages, but now that I have some idea where my patrilineal ancestors were living during the Last Glacial Maximum, I have considerable interest in what their lives were probably like. -- Don Stone On 6/12/2016 6:22 AM, Colin Withers via wrote: > After facing a brick wall in my own family's genealogy for nearly 30 > years, the wall finally came down 10 years ago. Here is the link to > the article I wrote then on the Yorksgen group, and thankfully > archived by rootsweb: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/YORKSGEN/2006-08/1156683092 > Wibs

My yDNA is the common British Isles R1b. Supposedly these ancestors sheltered during the Ice Age on the Iberian Peninsula. The DNA testing company offers connections with others who match you at 12, 25, 37, 64, etc markers. You also list your birthplace, which in my case, was New Mexico. I was interested to find that most of my 12 marker matches (none of the higher matches) were with Hispanic people. I was contacted by several of my Hispanic "cousins" from New Mexico with 12 marker matches who picked up that I was from the same area (New Mexico was settled by Spanish colonists 400 years ago, for those who didn't know). Unfortunately, I had to inform them that 12 marker matches were not all that close and that our yDNA relationship was probably 12000 years old. On Jun 12, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Don Stone via wrote: > Colin, > > An excellent story showing the payoff for persistent, systematic work, > utilizing all available tools. > > In my case, Y-chromosome DNA testing came after I had worked out my > patrilineal pedigree. The pedigree has one link in New England for which > I could find strong circumstantial evidence but no direct proof > (http://donstonetech.com/StoneFamily/slides/JosStoneInBartlett.html, > http://donstonetech.com/StoneFamily/slides/JosStoneInv3.html). The Y-DNA > match (35/37 STR) with a well-documented descendant of the Massachusetts > immigrant Gregory Stone supports (but doesn't prove, of course) the > pedigree I worked out; he would be a 9th cousin. A number of earlier > genealogists had tried to connect my ancestor Joseph Stone of > Connecticut with the family of the brothers John and William Stone, > immigrants to Guilford, Connecticut. (Traces of this still appear on > the Web.) However, the Stones of Guilford are Y-DNA haplogroup R1b1a1a2 > (R-M269), whereas I am Y-DNA haplogroup I1a3 (I-Z63). > > The latest presentation of my patrilineal ancestry and Y-DNA is at > http://donstonetech.com/StoneChart. This version has some information > about paleoclimatology, cultural developments, etc., to make it more > interesting. For me the DNA testing was a catalyst for expanding my > horizons backward in time. For example, I had previously mostly ignored > information about ice ages, but now that I have some idea where my > patrilineal ancestors were living during the Last Glacial Maximum, I > have considerable interest in what their lives were probably like. > > -- Don Stone > > > On 6/12/2016 6:22 AM, Colin Withers via wrote: >> After facing a brick wall in my own family's genealogy for nearly 30 >> years, the wall finally came down 10 years ago. Here is the link to >> the article I wrote then on the Yorksgen group, and thankfully >> archived by rootsweb: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/YORKSGEN/2006-08/1156683092 >> Wibs > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-MEDIEVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message