It is interesting to note that some white skinned people carry African haplogroups and vice versa. Prof. Henry Louis (Skip) Gates Jr., head of Harvard University's African-American Studies department. Gates always knew he wasn't 100 percent African-American. According to family legend, Gates's only white ancestor was a slave owner named Samuel Brady, who had sex with Gates's great-great-grandmother Jane on his farm in Maryland in the 1800s. But recent DNA analyses turned Gates's world upside down. There was no trace of Brady on Gates's genome. Further testing revealed that Gates, in fact, carries as much Western European blood as he does African-and that one of his white ancestors was probably an Irish servant who met Gates's sixth or seventh great-grandfather sometime before 1700. "I'm thinking I'm a Brady and maybe I'm from Nigeria, and here I am descended from some white woman," says Gates. "It's incredible." Gates has both a European Y HG and mt HG. Cont. here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11080815/site/newsweek/ Janet Crain ----- Original Message ----- From: "helen sabin" <hsabin@cox.net> To: <hill@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [HILL] dna testing TALKED TO DEATH > DID you do the Male DNA or the MtDNA Mike? Are you comparing apples or > oranges or male to female here? If the male, they are more relevant -in > fact, much more relevant than female Mt DNA testing which is worthless for > genealogy research unless one is too stupid to figure out that light > skinned > peoples came from Europe and eventually from England. I can tell you FREE > Of CHARGE that due to your last name, your ancestors probably came from > England unless you are Black and then they probably came from Africa! I > can > also tell you that the name HILL on blacks is probably due to slavery days > when they took the name of their masters. That is much more information > than you would get from the MtDNA tests. > Helen >