Dave, I did forget to mention the number of DNA markers that we tested on my brother. It was Y-DNA 111. I had already signed my brother up for ysearch BUT I am so new in understanding DNA as a genealogy tool that the ysearch felt overwhelming to me. I will go ahead an explore it again using your examples. Gail ~ Gail Schinnerer Jorgensen ~ On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 3:14 AM, Dave Hamm <[email protected]> wrote: > Gail, > > You didn't mention how many Y-DNA markers you tested for, but if you > have 37 markers or more, then you should be able to get a reasonable > estimate of the male line from ysearch.org. > > With proper analysis, ysearch will also give pretty good clues for the > country of origin. > > Basically, you want to look for your closest matches, so select "Search > for genetic matches" > > Here is an example I did 10 years ago, estimating that my match for > country of origin would be near Crewkerne, England. My eventual actual > match was living about 20 miles from Crewkerne in Somerset. > > However, I should say that the ysearch web site is not very well > maintained, and sometimes gives an error. > > Just try again. Here is my study from 10 years ago: > > http://ham-country.com/HamCountry/HAM_DNA_Project/Groups/HAM_DNA_Group001_ > ANCESTRAL.html > > It is easiest to repeat that by skipping down to step #5. > > - At ysearch, do the "Search for genetic matches" > If you get an error screen try again until you get the error free screen. > > Next, in the screen for "Search for Genetic Matches" > - click on the "Click here > <http://www.ysearch.org/search_search.asp?uid=&freeentry=true>to enter > any sequence and search by Haplotype. > > and then enter your Y-DNA results. > > There are parameters at the bottom of this page for adjusting how close > of a match that you would want to see. > > Then, as I did in the Ancestral study, add up the surnames (just as I > had added up the 'countries of origin' - I had ignored those in the > U.S., and added up those in foreign countries). The highest total > surname should be your most likely surname. > > - Dave Hamm > > RE: > On 11/25/2017 12:14 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 21:56:49 -0700 > > From: Gail Jorgensen <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [DNA] Finding father of paternal great grandfather > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > 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 >