NOrman, Our numbers all match except for the 4th column You have # 11 and I have # 12, then in the 17th column you have # 17 and I have # 18. I too would like to know what this means. thanks Treasa Brookman A male cousin in Denver was tested for me. My mother's Brother's boy. He's a Kincaid.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Kincaide" <norman.kincaide@yahoo.com> To: <kincaid@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:40 PM Subject: [KINCAID] common ancestor question > Does anyone know what this means? It's from the Family Tree DNA website > and I have read it over several times. > > Refine your results with paper trail input > > The above numbers are based exclusively on the comparison of their Y-DNA > results, which show 2 mismatches. > However, these results can be refined if their paper trail indicates that > no common ancestor between Norman Kincaide and Treasa Brookman could have > lived in a certain number of past generations. > > If you don't know this information for a fact, do not change the "1" in > the box in the next paragraph. However, if you have the information, > please enter in the box and click on the recalculate button. > > What exactly does this mean: These results can be refined if their paper > trail indicates that no common ancestor between Norman Kincaide and Treasa > Brookman could have lived in a certain number of generations. > > And then: > If you don't know this information for a fact (does this mean that the > paper trail information does not show a common ancestor) do not change the > "1" in the box. > > Then there is: However, if you have the information, please enter in the > box and click on the recalculate button. > (Does this mean that if you are certain that Norman Kincaide & Treasa > Brookman had a common ancestor 8 generations ago you enter that number in > the box) > > The paper trail indicates that my John Kincaid who married Elizabeth Smith > and her William Kincaid who married Elizabeth Glenn were the sons of John > Kinkead who married Margaret Miles and died in Union Township, Erie > County, PA in 1822. > > So my main question is: Does knowing that paper trail information increase > the percentage of having a common ancestor or not? > > Sincerely > Norman Kincaide > > > > > > To see the Kincaid of all spellings DNA chart in Excel: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adgedge/Research/April%202004/Kincaid%20%20DNA.xls > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KINCAID-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.