My biological father's mother's line is Freeman. I am searching for my biological father's father's line which is Drane. My GGrandfather's father is unknown to me although many of the Drane women claimed DAR status because of very flawed research done during the 40's. I am 67 and my GGrandfather was born in 1776 - how about that for a lot of men marrying really young women! I don't think I would believe it myself if I had not done the research and know it is true. My biological ggrandfather was 70 when my grandfather was born, my grandfather was in his late 50's when my father was born, and my father was 38 when I was born. Fortunately, I broke the chain, I was only 26 when my son was born. ----- Original Message ----- From: cristy To: michael.lightfoot@canb.auug.org.au ; nir-down@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:24 PM Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] NIR-DOWN/Have DNA Run 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 > ------------------------------- 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