The only thing that dna or mtdna will tell you is basic info, i.e. most probable area with greatest current dna or mtdna matching,  It may help you if you can compare your dna or mtdna to others in the system provided by the company doing the testing.  There are several in the market and from what I know one that can be up-loaded with your results so they can be viewed by anyone belonging to that site. All the other companies maintain their own individual sites.  And even then, matching is difficult to impossible.  My uncle's dna matched another individual at 99.9%.  Only when I joined a surname project, did I find out that my uncle and the other person were cousins.  So far, after almost 4 years, I have not found another match in their database.  There are many 12 marker matches but they do not have the same surname or the other 37 markers are a complete non-match. Helen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Cochran" <kathys_old_house@goldrush.com> To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 7:08:01 PM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] DNA ethnicity test Honestly, if you have your DNA done, and it tells you where your ancestors came from 1000 years ago or more, what have you gained?  I'm really not sure ANYTHING! It's not going to help you find out any names or any records 3-4 hundred years ago that could help with the brick-wall breaking!   If anyone else on this list has some comments on this, please feel free to correct me................ Kathy Cochran -----Original Message----- From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Shelia Salomone Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 5:21 PM To: laorlean@rootsweb.com; 'Sally Viada' Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] DNA ethnicity test What if you have a brick wall that has not been cracked for 40+ years of research through numerous family members? Would DNA testing help since there is a mixture of foreigner ancestors and it is my great great grandparents? No amount of research has cracked it yet! And doesn't ancestry.co have all of the records you mention that are on Fold3? I have seen all these records mentioned already on ancestry.com. Thanks, Shelia -----Original Message----- From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kathy Cochran Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:23 PM To: 'Sally Viada' Cc: 'laorleans' Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] DNA ethnicity test Hi Sally,   I had my Uncle's DNA tested, because we were looking to break a brick wall on my Cochran great-grandfather, who undoubtedly came from a Scottish line, but no info further back than 1818 is available.  AND, I have traced about 4 lines of our family back into Germany.   The results came back that Paco is about 75% Scandanavian!   I expected the results to say something like about 75% German!  The real answer to this is that the Vikings invaded Scotland and created Cochrans, and the Vikings invaded Germany and created Borns and Rices (Reiss's)( my families that immigrated to New Orleans in the 1800's). But I was looking for something a little more recent - like back to the 1600's perhaps.     Maybe I expected too much?   Kathy Cochran   From: Sally Viada [mailto:sgvjada@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 11:16 AM To: Kathy Cochran Cc: laorleans Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] DNA ethnicity test   Well, I did the maternal line a couple of years ago through Ancestry.  I know I have Spanish on my mother's line back to Graciana Solis, born abt 1751 in Cuba. Her grandmother died in Cuba abt 1712. So I thought it was safe to assume they were from Spain. Graciana married Juan Ronquillo. I also come from Graciana's brother Joseph Solis.   The results came back that I came out of Africa abt 150,000 years ago. Thought everyone knew this.  Did I miss something in reading the results??     Sally   From: Kathy Cochran <kathys_old_house@goldrush.com> To: 'Sally Viada' <sgvjada@yahoo.com>; laorlean@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 11:32 AM Subject: RE: [LAORLEAN] DNA ethnicity test Hi Sally,  I am curious about your perceived results of your first test.  I have had a similar reaction.   Kathy -----Original Message----- From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sally Viada Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 8:54 AM To: laorleans Subject: [LAORLEAN] DNA ethnicity test Just sent off my dna ethnicity test from Ancestry today. Hope it gets better results than the first   one.   Sally ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. 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