This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: NancyKiser Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.phillips/8091.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: We have a General Fund established at Phillips Worldwide DNA Project and many different people contribute to it, in case that makes you feel any better. I believe there is enough money in the fund to pay for a basic 12 marker screening test. However, the person to be tested would have to be a straight line male Phillips descendant of your David Phillips. In other words, his last name needs to be Phillips. Nancy Kiser Assistant Administrator Phillips Worldwide DNA Project Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Do you have Dna test for women? wprice ----- Original Message ----- From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: <PHILLIPS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 4:45 PM Subject: Re: [PHILLIPS] ORANGE Co., NC Phillips on 1755 Tax List > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: NancyKiser > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.phillips/8091.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > We have a General Fund established at Phillips Worldwide DNA Project and > many different people contribute to it, in case that makes you feel any > better. I believe there is enough money in the fund to pay for a basic 12 > marker screening test. However, the person to be tested would have to be > a straight line male Phillips descendant of your David Phillips. In other > words, his last name needs to be Phillips. > > Nancy Kiser > Assistant Administrator > Phillips Worldwide DNA Project > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you > would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link > above and respond on the board. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, Wanda, Yes, there is a DNA test for women, but it is not very effective for genealogical research. Women have something called mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that can be tested. However, mtDNA cannot be tied to any specific surname, because women traditionally change their last names every generation when they get married. Also, mtDNA mutates or changes very, very slowly, much slower than male DNA (yDNA). In fact, mtDNA mutates so slowly that your mtDNA is probably exactly the same as your direct maternal ancestor who lived thousands of years ago. This means that mtDNA testing works better for anthropological research than for genealogical research. Nancy Kiser Wanda Price <pricetag61@suddenlink.net> wrote: Do you have Dna test for women? wprice --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.