Thanks for the actual numbers. Percents don't mean much to those of us working with the real numbers. I concur that a 38/43 match, if it happened at 43, would probably not help us break thru any "brick walls". Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott D Kendall" <skendall@kc.rr.com> To: <macqueen@rootsweb.com>; <Queen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [MacQueen] Queen and McQueen > > There is an 87% match but that is comparing a RG 43 marker test to 31 of > the > 37 marker test from FTDNA. The match is between a descendant of Charles > Queen born c1720 of VA or Ireland and a descendant of James McQueen of b > 1773 of Girvan, Scotland > > Even if the Queen participant upgraded to RG 43 markers and matched on all > the additional markers it would be an 88% match. A 38/43 match may not be > genealogically significant (within the last 20 generations), at this time. > But it is open to interpretation. > > Let me know your thoughts. > > Scott > > > > ********** > Resources for list members: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/m/macqueen.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MACQUEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message