I just saw this post and have not checked the links. But I might make the question a little more specific. There is no question that there are MANY uses for autosomal DNA and, surely, many ways to apply those uses. What I have often wondered is whether there are some procedures that might apply most directly to ONS by filtering through the matched segments to come up with a reasonable substitute when YDNA is not possible. For example, I've had people point to a series of autosomal matches as "proof" that two men, generations back, have a father/son relationship when documentary evidence shows it NOT to be so. In my understanding, there is still plenty of room that the match could have come through a female line that does not connect the father and son. I'm not really skilled at analyzing autosomal DNA and most of my ONS work is with YDNA, but it seems that there should be some way of evaluating a collection of autosomal connections to increase the likelihood of establishing a male line connection. If such a thing hasn't been written, it seems that some statistician should be able to come up with something. Doug Beezley d On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:46 AM, Garry F Bell <hellolad@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > Thank you to all those who supplied such very good suggestions. Garry > Auckland NZ > > _____________________________________________ > > Information and admin page: > http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message