Dear Gail, In addition to Stephanie's excellent suggestions, I would also suggest that testing the oldest generation of the descendents of your great-grandfather using autosomal DNA tests with the major genetic genealogical testing companies maximizes the amount of autosomal DNA from your great-grandfather you can acquire and this data will hopefully help you determine who your great-grandfather's parents were. If your father isn't alive, then I would also do autosomal testing on your brother, as well as any of your father's siblings or first cousins who might be alive. Sincerely, Tim Janzen On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Gail Jorgensen <[email protected]> wrote: > I am hoping that this is not too basic a question for this group. > During my research of my dad’s family, I discovered that my dad’s father’s > father (my dad’s grandfather) was adopted at birth by his mothers husband > and given his mothers husband name. > What this means to me is my great grandfather’s ancestors need to be > found. My question is what do I need to do to discover who this man is. > My brother did a Y-DNA through family tree DNA and has 3 matches – One of > them is that a genetic distance of 2 and the other 2 are at a genetic > distance of 7. None of them have my brothers surname and so far we have not > figured out a match that would give us our paternal great grandfather. > Through ancestry DNA there are possibly a few matches that I do not know > where the connection is so one of these could be a descendent of a common > ancestor as I mentioned so far I can’t figure it out. > If anyone has any suggestions on how I can maneuver through all the places > we have DNA to figure this out I would appreciate it. > I have tested at ancestry DNA and family tree DNA and 23 and me and have > uploaded raw data to GEDmatch and my heritage. > Any help is appreciated, > Gail Jorgensen

I have tested my brother at all the major testing companies. He is the only male from my Dad's line who is alive. My first cousins from that side are all from my father's sister. I however, just followed my great grandfather's line and realized that there is one male 2nd cousin that perhaps I could persuade to test! Gail ~ Gail Schinnerer Jorgensen ~ On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Tim Janzen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Gail, > In addition to Stephanie's excellent suggestions, I would also suggest > that testing the oldest generation of the descendents of your > great-grandfather using autosomal DNA tests with the major genetic > genealogical testing companies maximizes the amount of autosomal DNA from > your great-grandfather you can acquire and this data will hopefully help > you determine who your great-grandfather's parents were. If your father > isn't alive, then I would also do autosomal testing on your brother, as > well as any of your father's siblings or first cousins who might be alive. > Sincerely, > Tim Janzen > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Gail Jorgensen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I am hoping that this is not too basic a question for this group. > > During my research of my dad’s family, I discovered that my dad’s > father’s > > father (my dad’s grandfather) was adopted at birth by his mothers husband > > and given his mothers husband name. > > What this means to me is my great grandfather’s ancestors need to be > > found. My question is what do I need to do to discover who this man is. > > My brother did a Y-DNA through family tree DNA and has 3 matches – One of > > them is that a genetic distance of 2 and the other 2 are at a genetic > > distance of 7. None of them have my brothers surname and so far we have > not > > figured out a match that would give us our paternal great grandfather. > > Through ancestry DNA there are possibly a few matches that I do not know > > where the connection is so one of these could be a descendent of a common > > ancestor as I mentioned so far I can’t figure it out. > > If anyone has any suggestions on how I can maneuver through all the > places > > we have DNA to figure this out I would appreciate it. > > I have tested at ancestry DNA and family tree DNA and 23 and me and have > > uploaded raw data to GEDmatch and my heritage. > > Any help is appreciated, > > Gail Jorgensen > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >