> [snip] > > 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. > > "J. Hugh Sullivan" <[email protected]> It sounds as though y-DNA testing of some cousins might be called for--male line descendants of your paternal grandfather, great- grandfather, great-great-grandfather, etc--in order to insure that you all share the same y-DNA. I would certainly want confirmation that I shared y-DNA with my most distant known SULLIVAN cousin; that way, I would be fairly sure that if there was an adoption or "non-paternal event" in my ancestry, it must have occurred at least several generations back. "Ron Head" <[email protected]>