> I was very satisfied with Family Tree DNA. > > http://www.familytreedna.com/ > > I did the 37 marker test because that was the best available at the > time. > > Be advised that linking to ancestors depends on a number of > conditions. In my case my closest link is to a man whose family > name is not even in my genealogy but we have a 60% chance of having > the same ancestor 7 or 8 generations ago. I only have 5 generations > proven. > > To really learn something you almost have to match someone who has > the genealogy back to the Bible. > > More than 30 Sullivans have tested and I am not in the same > haplogroup as any of them so I have learned nothing so far except my > Neanderthal ancestors went from Africa to the Russian Steppes. > Yeah, I know, the Neanderthals forgot to keep breeding and > disappeared. No political comments please. > > [email protected] (J. Hugh Sullivan) I had my husband's 37 marker test done also, but his 3 closest lines (36/37) are not in our ancestor list. Two of them don't even have the same last name and didn't even live in any of the same areas at any time in the last 6 generations. Possible scenarios include: (1) Father's death.. and the children took the name of the man his mother remarried. (2) Both parents died or couldn't raise the child, so was taken in by another family and assumed that surname. (3) Man fathered a child with someone other than a legal wife. Since there were no sperm banks back then... DNA speaks for itself. I just wish it would speak MY language. Carolyn "Carolyn Lowe" <[email protected]>