--part1_11f.9522c7e.295fb32e_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_11f.9522c7e.295fb32e_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Full-name: RADM Carey Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:26:32 EST Subject: Does DNA prove we're related? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: undisclosed-recipients:; X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 139 Thought I'd see if anyone on this list would be interested in comparing DNA to see if we're related? Of course to do so means you have to have your DNA run by a lab, but from what I'm seeing via genealogy lists, more and more folks are doing it, and it can help to indicate the probability of common ancestors from hundreds of years ago. Here's what I've learned: 1. Having one's DNA run is relatively expensive [$100/$200 + dollars], but as competition increases, prices are slowly coming down. 2. It's far from an exact science at present, but can indicate probabilities of common ancestors of 100's of years ago [which some will feel is of little value]. 3. While reading the messages on the DNA-oriented lists often leaves me more confused than before [some of the respondents are quite technical], I am slowly beginning to learn at least the generic theories that are helping me to understand when DNA is helpful for genealogy purposes, and what it can't do. [That list is at [email protected] if you're interested] 4. There is a plan in the works to have a genealogy database where one can list their DNA numbers and see if anyone pops up as a likely ancestral link, but it's just now under development---- the web page is currently just the home page only. URL is www.genealogydna.org for anyone interested. As I understand it, the web site owner hopes to have the criteria established for the database and the ability to enter one's DNA numbers within the next month or two. Having said all this, and while I intend to put my data into the database when it's ready, I realize there are many who avoid such efforts, so please understand I'm not advocating anyone do this---- just that it's in the works and will one day be available. Hope this is helpful to some of you, and that one day it helps establish that we are long-lost relatives with a somewhat more recent linkage than Adam & Eve. With all good wishes for a genealogy-productive 2002, Jim Carey Washington, DC Grandparents: CAREY / RYAN / HARRISON / MCGREGOR Related Direct Ancestors: SULLIVAN / KILROY / TACKABERRY / MCKERCHER / DOCKERTY / GOURLEY / DUFFIELD --part1_11f.9522c7e.295fb32e_boundary--