Denis Beauregard wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:06:46 GMT, Power-Post 2K <nonews@noname.com> >> 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. But if you think a particular person might be in your paternal line, matching to a proven descendant might confirm it. So you can be very sure you descended from him (or didn't), but not so sure how far back. -- Wes Groleau Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy

I think a DNA match of this nature is pretty much the same as the age old problem of what do you do when you find the right name in the right place at the right time. For example I know that all Rebetzkes in Australia are related, so I hoover up any data connected with that name. But that doesn't mean that when I encounter a Rebetzke in the records that I can correctly locate that person in my family tree. What I can do is stick them in my database and start collecting information on them until their place in the tree eventually reveals itself. So it seems to me that DNA matches are much the same. There is a high probability that they are related, so you hardly want to forget about them. But you still have to plug away and collect the birth, marriage, death information etc that leads to working out what that relationship might be. Kerry