The reason I started Family History was because I had no HESKINS male cousins... Janet [2281] In a message dated 27/04/2016 12:20:43 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Don't forget over extended periods of time many DNA lines simply die out, people with no children, no male children (y-dna). It doesn't have to be natural disasters or massacres. There was a study on it some time ago but I have lost the details. with kind regards Derek Bandy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JANETHESKI via Sent: 27 April 2016 12:00 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [G] DNA conclusions? And the Black Death... And the plague of 1665... Janet [2281] In a message dated 27/04/2016 11:58:02 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Well, the last ice age would have killed many but even so ... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Gray via Sent: 2016 April 27 08:19 To: [email protected] Subject: [G] DNA conclusions? A recent claim in the UK's Daily Telegraph - as pointed to by today's "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter" - was that half of today's European men are descended from a single man who lived some 4,000 years ago. Leaving aside what happened to all the boys descended from the many thousands of other men alive at that time - let alone this man's close relations (mass genocide?) - how can people make such sweeping generalisations based on the DNA of just 1,200 people? I could better understand if the study was of a few million people. The same goes for this "Eve" person we are all meant to be descended from. Was she the only female alive at the time? Did she wonder around Africa killing off all the others? Chris _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- 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 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- 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 _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- 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 _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- 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