I find that in general, families with a good paper trail are less likely to use DNA testing to support the documentation than families who lack any records to prove or to find any family history. Darrel Hockley From: peter1623a via <gen-medieval@rootsweb.com> To: gen-medieval@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 10:27 AM Subject: Re: Ignorance, False Promises and Pseudoscience: Is This Profit Promotion of DNA Fiction by Senior Genealogists? > An example of DNA overturning last century's historical-record based genealogy is Archibald Bennett's conclusion about the origin of the North Carolina Allred family (now known to be ancestral to Pres. Obama). Bennett's theories were overturned by YDNA evidence. Patchy records have been discovered, which Allred missed that corroborate the migrations revealed by YDNA analysis. > > Archibald Bennett is considered to be one of the top Mormon genealogists of the twentieth century. If his conclusions can be invalidated by DNA evidence, anyone's can. > > I summed up this discovery by the Allred Family Organization on FamilySearch's Blog "DNA vs. 1940s Professional Genealogist" https://familysearch.org/blog/en/dna-1940s-professional-genealogist/ > > Nathan I believe this is exactly the sort of thing Thomas Tinney is afraid of and why he is so anti-DNA. So far his arguments have sounded more like someone grasping at straws and trying desperately to suppress the use of DNA rather than making a real, evidence-based, case against it. As an amateur genealogist and historian I'm interested in going where the evidence leads, not to where I want it to lead. I'm not always crazy about where it leads, but  I'd rather know the truth. I see DNA as a tool to assist me in my genealogical and historical research. It is not THE tool, but A tool to be used in conjunction with other, more traditional, tools. Peter D. A. Warwick ------------------------------- 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