I haven't yet identified any living relatives descended through a male line that are related to me, been working on it 40 years Chris U > On 28 Apr 2016, at 09:24, Liz Phillips via <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought my direct line was fairly healthy until I thought about it, half > brother (different father), who has two daughters and one son, so only has > three daughter's, girls obviously different surnames, but one had four > daughters anyway and the other only one son. Male cousin who has no > children, uncle with only one girl! So, this family line is now dead! > > best wishes, from another girl of the only girl! > Liz > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Derek Bandy via <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 > _____________________________________________ > > 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