I thought the autosomal DNA took the place of the Y DNA and the one for the maternal side. I paid several hundred dollars for a 37 marker Y DNA test 10 or 15 years ago for one of my lines. We have yet to make a match on that line. I find it really exciting to keep finding matches to several direct ancestral lines with the current Ancestry autosomal DNA test. My lines have tested up to about 7 or 8 generations thus far. I don't think that all of the tests are compatible with each other. One might want to read up on Gedmatch which can use DNA from other companies' tests. Margaret -----Original Message----- From: Joan Young via Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] More questions about DNA Does he just want to know about the surname/male line (top line of the pedigree)? If so the Y DNA test at FTDNA is what he wants starting with 37 markers. If he wants to know about ALL sides of his ancestry and find cousins on both paternal and maternal side I'd suggest starting with the AncestryDNA autosomal test. If he wants to know all of the above...he should both. He can always upload his AncestryDNA results to FTDNA Family Finder later on to have additional resources. Joan Young jyoung6180@aol.com

On Apr 6, 2016, at 2:26 PM, MScheffler via <roots@rootsweb.com> wrote: I paid several hundred dollars for a 37 marker Y DNA test 10 or 15 years ago for one of my lines. We have yet to make a match on that line. << Margaret, I assume Margaret is female and you have no Y chromosome. Could that be why you aren’t finding a match? Most people seem to assume Gale is female too but that was just what my mother chose. I expanded my test results with FTDNA to 97 markers when they were running a “sale” a couple of years ago. Gale Gorman Houston

No, we had my mother's first cousin (male) do the swab. There are at least 35 PIKE families that have tested in England, US, and Canada. Some of them have found matches, but no luck for ours. Sad, the the older generation has no passed without answers. I would update the markers if there were any indication we were even close to a match. Margaret -----Original Message----- From: GALE GORMAN Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 3:36 PM To: MScheffler Cc: roots@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] More questions about DNA On Apr 6, 2016, at 2:26 PM, MScheffler via <roots@rootsweb.com> wrote: I paid several hundred dollars for a 37 marker Y DNA test 10 or 15 years ago for one of my lines. We have yet to make a match on that line. << Margaret, I assume Margaret is female and you have no Y chromosome. Could that be why you aren’t finding a match? Most people seem to assume Gale is female too but that was just what my mother chose. I expanded my test results with FTDNA to 97 markers when they were running a “sale” a couple of years ago. Gale Gorman Houston