I did find a distant relative at the 12 marker level with Family Tree DNA by looking at who on the list was looking for what families and we found our common Lightfoot surname ancestor of about 1650. Whether that Lightfoot DNA was a factor or not in the matching, I do not know. Darrel Hockley From: taf via <gen-medieval@rootsweb.com> To: gen-medieval@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 4:59 PM Subject: Re: DNA - My Story from 10 years ago On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 12:36:31 PM UTC-7, Gordon Banks via wrote: > It seems like they shouldn't report 12 marker matches at all, if it serves > no genealogical purpose.  It just confuses those who don't understand the > significance of it to be given the email of one of their relatives to > contact when the relationship is so distant. You won't find me arguing, at least with regard to giving out completely useless email addresses, but from a marketing perspective you paid for a test to identify cousins so they are going to give you cousins, and most happy customers will never even figure out it is meaningless. taf ------------------------------- 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