​Given my case for autosomal, what I would want is three cousins who are descended from 3 different brothers from the Newberry five, who have one or more Chromosome segments that match Tom and/or Bob and match each other.​ This would triangulate the results. Two matches is enough but ideally, you want them equidistant from each other, like three legs on a stool. Most often, for me, I use a second cousin where there is a match, and the third leg is someone who has common ancestry much higher up the part of the tree shared with the second cousin. It's a wobbly stool, but it works. On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Jack D. Lovelace via <lovelace@rootsweb.com > wrote: > Lou Ann, > > I think that you are confusing Y-DNA testing with Autosomal DNA testing. > > Y-DNA testing works only on the Y chromosome and can tell if two > individuals come from the same paternal line. > > Autosomal DNA testing works on the other 21 pairs of chromosomes (which > an individual gets from both parents). From what I understand about the > process, you need test results from at least three individuals in order > to establish a relationship. One of which must be a close relative; > i.e. a sibling or a parent. > > On 6/27/2016 9:45 AM, Jack Wyatt via wrote: > > Will someone help me out here, what Thomas could possibly give the above > > "consistent results". > > To my knowledge we don't have a line with a Thomas of that generation > being > > part of the DNA > > tests. Help. Have I missed something. > > Lou Ann > > -- > > Jack D. Lovelace > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >