Hi Beverly. I personally have not had much success with DNA and genealogy pointing me to new trees or branches. However, I have a friend who was adopted and used DNA and genealogy to find his birth father. He went from thinking he was part Native American because that is what he'd always been told to discovering his Scottish roots. As I understand it by using his DNA test results he was able to find an ancestor and then trace his way forward until he found his father. Not as easy as I made it sound for sure. :-) If you don't object I could pass your email address to him to see if he is willing to offer any more solid advice. His name is Don Anderson and he also wrote a book about his journey to find his father through DNA and genealogy that's on Amazon right now called "Paper and Spit". Have a great day. Mark On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Beverly <bevart@frontiernet.net> wrote: > My husband, Art, who was born in 1938 was adopted. He didn't learn about > it until his birth mother called when he was 25. We had one visit with her > and she said his father was a little blonde guy from Oklahoma; she didn't > remember his name. He was in the Navy. > At this time we were adopting ourselves and didn't pursue a relationship > with her. > > Last year Art took an Ancestry DNA test. Then recently we received a > message that there was up to a 70% chance that he descended from a couple > that were born in Kentucky in 1844 and died in Texas. These people must > be from his paternal side because his maternal side are from Portugal and > didn't go back that far in the USA. > > I'm not sure what to do with this information. Since I have a lot of time, > I started a tree for them and working forward. I knew it was like looking > for a needle in a haystack, but like the saying goes, no stones unturned. > > Any comments, suggestions, etc., would be greatly appreciated. > > ~Blessings, Bev

Mark... Thank you! No problem with forwarding my email to Don or anyone else. Appreciate any info I can get. All the messages I'm receiving are encouraging. ~Hugs, Bev -----Original Message----- From: Mark Wardell Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 11:55 AM To: roots@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry DNA Hi Beverly. I personally have not had much success with DNA and genealogy pointing me to new trees or branches. However, I have a friend who was adopted and used DNA and genealogy to find his birth father. He went from thinking he was part Native American because that is what he'd always been told to discovering his Scottish roots. As I understand it by using his DNA test results he was able to find an ancestor and then trace his way forward until he found his father. Not as easy as I made it sound for sure. :-) If you don't object I could pass your email address to him to see if he is willing to offer any more solid advice. His name is Don Anderson and he also wrote a book about his journey to find his father through DNA and genealogy that's on Amazon right now called "Paper and Spit". Have a great day. Mark On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Beverly <bevart@frontiernet.net> wrote: > My husband, Art, who was born in 1938 was adopted. He didn't learn about > it until his birth mother called when he was 25. We had one visit with her > and she said his father was a little blonde guy from Oklahoma; she didn't > remember his name. He was in the Navy. > At this time we were adopting ourselves and didn't pursue a relationship > with her. > > Last year Art took an Ancestry DNA test. Then recently we received a > message that there was up to a 70% chance that he descended from a couple > that were born in Kentucky in 1844 and died in Texas. These people must > be from his paternal side because his maternal side are from Portugal and > didn't go back that far in the USA. > > I'm not sure what to do with this information. Since I have a lot of time, > I started a tree for them and working forward. I knew it was like looking > for a needle in a haystack, but like the saying goes, no stones unturned. > > Any comments, suggestions, etc., would be greatly appreciated. > > ~Blessings, Bev ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message