Oops. I stand corrected. -----Original Message----- From: John M Rhodes [mailto:johnmrhodes409@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 10:48 PM To: Loretta Layman; genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DNA] Y-DNA matching system ideas (was: "Where to yDNA Test") I believe the US census is released after 72 years, not 70. The 1940 census was released in 2012; the 1930 was released in 2002, etc. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 9, 2015, at 10:14 PM, Loretta Layman via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > The Census Bureau waits only 70 years. The 1940 census was released > in 2010 and includes countless individuals still living. Of course, > only persons born by 1940 can be linked with their parents. > > Loretta > > -----Original Message----- > From: genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sam Sloan via > Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 8:17 PM > To: AJ Marsh; genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [DNA] Y-DNA matching system ideas (was: "Where to yDNA > Test") > > How is any person who has been adopted going to find their birth > parent if everybody born after 1900 is excluded from the trees? > > I do not think it is a legal requirement to exclude living persons. > Just a custom and courtesy. > > Sam Sloan > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:45 PM, AJ Marsh via > <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> > wrote: > >> Doug, >> >> That did not read the way I intended it! >> >> I meant the trees should not include persons still living, to protect >> the privacy of living persons who may not be the DNA tester. I meant >> to say as an arbitrary cutoff, it was reasonably certain persons born >> before 1900 were not still living. It is safer to exclude persons >> born after 1900, than to exclude "living" persons, as I find internet >> trees are occasionally wrong about living status. I even found one >> Internet tree indicating I was dead, something which I disagree with. >> >> John. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 10/12/2015, at 10:57 am, McDonald@lists3.rootsweb.com wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> On Behalf Of AJ Marsh via >>> "You raise a good point about a line of ancestors rather than just >>> the >> presumed most distant. In my surname project, early published >> genealogical books claim that certain USA families descended from >> brothers in the 1600, whereas Y-DNA clearly shows the assumed >> brothers did not have the same Y-DNA, ie did not have the same direct >> male line ancestor in the past >> 30,000 years. So giving a line of ancestors is more helpful, as it >> still would work even if it wrongly assumes the most distant ancestor. >>> >>> In my projects some even believe family legends, and claim their >> earliest known male line ancestor was someone living 1000 years ago. >> In some cases they may be right, in others they may be wrong. >>> >>> One good thing about the Sorenson database was the well documented >> pedigrees. When I found matches in that database I was really able >> to infer a possible point or region of connection, the genealogies >> were hugely helpful. >>> >>> I think the default should be no names of ancestors living or born >> before about 1900, but there are different views on that." >>> ----------------------------- >>> >>> Huh??? none born BEFORE 1900? Does that not make it useless? >>> >>> Doug McDonald >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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