What if you're having blood drawn for genetic testing anyway... would that give better results? And would my son give the same info as my father or not? Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "elainedecker" <elainedecker@frontiernet.net> To: <RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [RIGENWEB] DNA Testing for Field/Fields > Remember it is only men that can be tested and it has to be a direct line > through the men back to whomever you are looking for. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Wright" <wmewrght@hal-pc.org> > To: <RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:53 PM > Subject: [RIGENWEB] DNA Testing for Field/Fields > > >> >Debbie wrote: >> >> Am I to the point that DNA testing is worth doing? Anyone have >> experience with this? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Debbie >> >> I am a fan of DNA testing. I recommend that anyone serious about their >> family origins join one of the DNA family surname projects. >> >> Myself and two Wright "cousins" have been tested and resolved conflicting >> claims arising from descendants of multiple William Wrights who lived >> near each other. >> >> Looking at two RI families in which I am interested because my family >> claimed a relationship to Commodore Perry and General Greene, as many >> others also claim, DNA testing can prove or disprove this relationship. >> >> Greene. A distant cousin of the general has been tested #27438, "Kelly >> Greene." He is a descendant of John Greene of Warwick as General >> Nathanael Greene was. The results can be viewed at >> <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~greendna/> >> >> A Greene claiming a relationship to the general will have a DNA that >> closely matches Kelly Greene. >> >> My third cousin surnamed Greene, a RI Greene descendant has been tested >> #20192, "Robert Green." We probably have a non-paternal event in our >> Greene line. I keep looking to find a match to Robert's DNA and that will >> give us a clue as to our ancestral line. >> >> We need other RI Greene descendants to step forward and be tested. To >> verify Kelly's descent from John of Warwick, but also to resolve the >> question of the relationship of the two or three John Greenes who >> immigrated to RI in the 1600s. >> >> Perry. There are two descendants of Edmund/Edward that have been tested >> under the National Geographic Project. Edmund/Edward was the ancestor of >> the commodores. A related person will have a DNA close to that of the >> proven descendants of Edmund/Edward. >> <http://www.perry-dna.org/pages/ydnaResultsFrameSet.html> >> >> The Fields project is just getting under way and so has only a few >> participants. That only emphasizes the need for more people to join. >> >> To find your surname project go to >> <http://www.familytreedna.com/cj.asp?ftdna_ref=199> Enter your surname in >> the search box at the upper right of the screen. >> >> Bill Wright >> >> >> ==== RIGENWEB Mailing List ==== >> Support RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative: http://www.rootsweb.com/ >> Surname Helper Search http://cgi.rootsweb.com/surhelp/srchall.html >> >> > > > ==== RIGENWEB Mailing List ==== > Search the RIGenWeb Mailing List > http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/mailsrch.html > RIGenWeb Surname And Query List > http://www.rootsweb.com/~riwashin/state/qryindex.htm > >

Debbie, If your son tests for DNA he will show HIS father's DNA not your father's. Your father's DNA will show up if you have brothers who are your father's son. Make a list, your father is first, then his father and mother next to him, then grandfather and grandmother next to each other. All the men are on one side of this list. The women are on the other side of the list. Your father will carry the DNA of his father AND his mother. His sister will only carry his mother's DNA. Next list do the same thing starting with his mother, then her father and mother. A women only carries the DNA of her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother etc. a straight line up thru the list on your mothers side. These 2 lists are separate from each other therefore your son will carry your maternal DNA up thru your mother, grandmother etc. He will carry his fathers DNA thru father, grandfather, great-grandfather. He will not carry YOUR father's DNA because you don't carry it. You only carry your mother's. I have had my father tested for both X and Y DNA. So that means we have his father and his mother's DNA. My maternal grandmother was tested which gives up her DNA and her mothers with a straight line up thru the maternal side of the chart. We also had our only male cousin on the Moore side of the family tested and entered into the worldwide Moore DNA project. We haven't matched anyone. Then a distant cousin told me my great-grandfather was a foundling and only got the name Moore because that was the name of the family that found him on the street corner and took him in. Stefanie