On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:54:19 -0400, Denis Beauregard <denis.b-at-francogene.com@fr.invalid> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:06:46 GMT, Power-Post 2K <nonews@noname.com> > wrote in soc.genealogy.computing: > >>For those who have achieved simliar results through DNA testing, what >>do you do? Incorporate the people into the tree, or do something else >>with them? > > DNA is not accurate genealogically speaking. > > Someone with identical DNA, if Y-DNA, can be your brother, father, > uncle, grand-father, gg-father, cousin, removed cousin, etc. (ditto > for mtDNA and women). Yes, that's in one chromosome pair. There's 21 others. > So, where will you fit someone that you don't > know if he is you g-7-father, g-8-father, g-9-father, etc., a cousin, > removed cousin, etc. ? By looking at the other 21 pairs.

On 18 Mar 2008 00:25:01 GMT, Dave Hinz <DaveHinz@gmail.com> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing: >On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:54:19 -0400, Denis Beauregard <denis.b-at-francogene.com@fr.invalid> wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:06:46 GMT, Power-Post 2K <nonews@noname.com> >> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing: >> >>>For those who have achieved simliar results through DNA testing, what >>>do you do? Incorporate the people into the tree, or do something else >>>with them? >> >> DNA is not accurate genealogically speaking. >> >> Someone with identical DNA, if Y-DNA, can be your brother, father, >> uncle, grand-father, gg-father, cousin, removed cousin, etc. (ditto >> for mtDNA and women). > >Yes, that's in one chromosome pair. There's 21 others. > >> So, where will you fit someone that you don't >> know if he is you g-7-father, g-8-father, g-9-father, etc., a cousin, >> removed cousin, etc. ? > >By looking at the other 21 pairs. 10 generations back ??? Denis -- Denis Beauregard - Les Français d'Amérique du Nord - www.francogene.com/genealogie--quebec/ French in North America before 1722 - www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/ Sur cédérom à 1770 - On CD-ROM to 1770