How have various family groups dealt with the following scenario which happened in my husband's family? Y-DNA studies were done to see if various lines were related.  One came back as completely unrelated.  The parents of the person tested are living.  He had grown up in his family thinking of course that he was a biological child of both parents.  Needless to say, this person is devastated and the family is in real turmoil. I am not saying don't do DNA studies but I am asking how you would deal with this. As we work on our various Germanna lines, we may encounter the above situation at some point. Suzanne Collins Matson

You just file the information away and move on. There is no point in getting upset about it at this late date. My own DNA testing proved "family lore" that my surname should be be something else so the results were not a shock. It seems that one of my direct ancestors used the surname of his step-father rather than the surname of his actual father. In addition, I know of a case where a family researcher had expended a tremendous amount of time and energy in researching what she thought was her ancestral line. When her father finally took the DNA test, it came back that they did not connect with their own surname line. That did come as a shock to her. So the message is to just accept the results and keep on trucking. Robert Nicholson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suzanne Matson" <holtzclaw.research@yahoo.com> To: "Germanna Colonies" <GERMANNA_COLONIES@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:13 AM Subject: [GERMANNA] DNA study question How have various family groups dealt with the following scenario which happened in my husband's family? Y-DNA studies were done to see if various lines were related. One came back as completely unrelated. The parents of the person tested are living. He had grown up in his family thinking of course that he was a biological child of both parents. Needless to say, this person is devastated and the family is in real turmoil. I am not saying don't do DNA studies but I am asking how you would deal with this. As we work on our various Germanna lines, we may encounter the above situation at some point. Suzanne Collins Matson ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message