Holleys wrote: > Sorry, make that Could Not have his DNA done because I was a woman. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Holleys > To: nir-down@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:36 PM > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] NIR-DOWN/Have DNA Run > > > I was told that my son could have his DNA done to prove our Drane > ancestry because I was a woman and it needed to come down through only > males. Is this not true? Put most simply there are two kinds of DNA test - yDNA which ONLY shows the male line and Mitchondrial DNA which ONLY shows the female line. So there is no way of proving, for example, your mother's father's line from anyone in your family. You would have to use a male member of your mother's brothers'(if any) families. Confused? Draw yourself a tree and look for the all male or all female lines. Those are the ones that can be researched via DNA at the moment. -- ==== Michael Lightfoot Canberra, Australia OPC Merther & St Clements, Cornwall see http://www.cornwall-opc.org michael.lightfoot@canb.auug.org.au ====

How about your father's mother's line? Christine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Lightfoot" <michael.lightfoot@canb.auug.org.au> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] NIR-DOWN/Have DNA Run > Holleys wrote: >> Sorry, make that Could Not have his DNA done because I was a woman. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Holleys >> To: nir-down@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:36 PM >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] NIR-DOWN/Have DNA Run >> >> >> I was told that my son could have his DNA done to prove our Drane >> ancestry because I was a woman and it needed to come down through only >> males. Is this not true? > > Put most simply there are two kinds of DNA test - yDNA which ONLY shows > the male line and Mitchondrial DNA which ONLY shows the female line. > > So there is no way of proving, for example, your mother's father's line > from anyone in your family. You would have to use a male member of your > mother's brothers'(if any) families. Confused? Draw yourself a tree and > look for the all male or all female lines. Those are the ones that can be > researched via DNA at the moment. > > -- > ==== > Michael Lightfoot > Canberra, Australia > OPC Merther & St Clements, Cornwall > see http://www.cornwall-opc.org > michael.lightfoot@canb.auug.org.au > ==== > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >