What you want to find is matches between Sam and another tester who *do not* match any other of his cousins -----Original Message----- From: Wesley Johnston via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> To: Genealogy-dna <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Nov 19, 2015 4:05 pm Subject: [DNA] Real Mother - the Mother or adult Daughter? One of our family members has a situation with his father's parents. Mary was married to Joe. They had several children, including several daughters. Joe died. And three years later, when his wife was an un-remarried widow and several of his adult daughters were unmarried and single and living at home, a son Sam was born and raised as Mary's son. This all happened about 100 years ago, and no one now living has actual knowledge of who Sam's parents really were. Sam's birth was never recorded, neither in civil nor church records. Clearly Sam's son (who has DNA tested for all 3 types - y, mt, at) would like to known who Sam's unknown father was. But -- and this is the subject of this post -- he would also like to know who Sam's mother was. Was it really Mary or was it one of her adult daughters? I have been rolling this around in my head -- with no breakthrough. Several of the relatives (all of the generation of Sam's son or more recent) have tested their atDNA (FTDNA Family Finder). Is there some way that we could figure out from how Sam's son matches his cousins whether his father's mother was Mary or one of Mary's daughters? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message