Larry: In order to obtain meaningful data about your Hamilton lines from this DNA study you would need to locate some living cousin (willing to provide a sample for testing) of each of your lines who is a direct male descendant of that line. It would not matter if he was a 3rd, 4th, 5th, or more cousin of yours since the DNA changes very little over many generations. Consequently, any living direct male descendant of either of your Hamilton lines would essentially have the DNA markers characteristic of that Hamilton line. Gordon Hamilton >Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:07:06 -0600 >From: "Larry Coats" <larcoa@aspermont.esc14.net> >To: HAMILTON-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <001301c2c615$c20c6400$fa83010a@5te77> >Subject: Re: [HAM] Hamilton DNA Project >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello Gordon, >I read about the Hamilton DNA project with great interest, but have a >question: >I have at least two Hamilton lines, one from my paternal Ggg grandmother, >Sarah Hamilton Coats, and another, several generations farther back, that >lies in the ancestry of my paternal Gg grandmother, Mary Ann Stewart Coats. >Given the fact that these Hamilton lines, in my case, are NOT direct male >line descent, is there any point to my getting involved in such testing? >Regards, >Larry D. Hamilton Coats