I'm with Doug Karla, no _reason_ at all to spend the money, but I'm in the I want to know camp. And am running out of willing "cousins" of assorted flavours for FamilyFinder. The brickwall that got me into DNA testing all those years ago remains unbroken - where did Archibald HENDERSON come from?. My 2nd cousin guinea pig tested (yDNA37 back then) and had no matches beyond 25 markers. In frustration, some years ago I tested another 2nd cousin, 2nd cousin to us both, but at yDNA67 - and thankfully got a match - GD2 (the first cousin had been upgraded to yDNA67 during a sale). I've now even BigY tested both. Which created a new branch on the (R) tree for them, estimated time from YFull for the MRCA of their branch, 225 ybp (1725), a sub branch of R-S7361 (mrca 1150 ybp) Regards Lorna Henderson http://LornaHen.com On 18/08/17 04:54, Karla Huebner wrote: > I don't know that I'd quite call myself a DNA test addict yet. Generally > speaking, I'm focused on testing more and more relatives, not on confirming > what's already known to be true. This means that on MOST days I figure > there's not a pressing need to do a Y test on my father's cousin... but the > thought does come up from time to time. > > Oddly enough, I don't have a lot of readily available Y candidates for > other parts of my family, or at least not among people I'm in touch with. > That's probably why I think at all about testing this cousin. > > Karla Huebner > calypsospots AT gmail.com > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 12:43 PM, McDonald, J Douglas <[email protected] >> wrote: >> With a proven male line cousin relation, and a BigY, there is absolutely no >> reason to spend money on any Y test of the cousin. >> >> OF course, there are such people as DNA test addicts, I'm one. If you are, >> its just money, and you will be happier if you test him. >> >> Doug McDonald >> >> > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > Virus-free. > www.avg.com > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > ------------------------------- > 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