I called the company because I am not a male descendent and wondered if the test would help me but was told it had to be a male descendent if it came from your fathers side. If someone can tell me different I would appreciate the information. Nancy On Jun 27, 2010, at 3:23 AM, George W. Durman wrote: > At 6/21/2010 11:12 AM Monday, Corlee Morris wrote: > *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >> My dear fellow Germanna Descendants, >> There is now a DNA test that does not require a direct male or female >> line. It is Called the "Family Finder" test. As a FTDNA group administrator >> I have been hearing about it for over 9 months but I did not understand how it >> works. So I did not notify this list or any of the Germanna DNA Project >> members. >> I at last understand the "science" and I am now comfortable enough about it to >> let you all know about it. Many of the Members of the Germanna DNA Project >> have already bought the test. >> I will send out another email to the list so that anyone not following this >> email's tread will also read about it. >> Sincerely yours, >> Corlee MorrisGermanna and Morris DNA Project Lead Group Administrator >> (snip) > **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** > > Corlee, PLEASE explain this "non-female, non-male" line DNA test. > > I'm not surprised that you don't understand how it works. If you understand > the science now, and can explain it to the rest of us, please explain why we > should spend money on the test. You didn't give any results of the test. > > From what little I know about DNA testing, it's either done for the > Y-Chromosome > or the mTChromosome. What other way is there to do any kind of DNA > testing? You didn't give a URL for the website of the company doing this > unorthodox sequencing, so I'm concerned. > > Sarge > > ======================================================= > My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: > http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna > > My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: > http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry/~george/index.html > > If you refer to a Germanna descendant, include a link to your on-line data. > ------------------------------- > 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