On 3/26/2016 3:41 PM, Jon P Czarowitz via wrote: > Pat > > At that point you have 2 separate trees. The child of each can have > only on e Mother,even though the Father is the same. You can be > descended from only one of these Mothers. > > Jon, You are incorrect. A person can be a descendant of both of the mothers, not an mtDNA descendant, but surely a descendant. All that is required is that later generations intermarry cousins. Pat said "direct line ancestor", not direct female or mtDNA ancestor. There are literally thousands of cousin marriages in Acadian lines.... in fact, it it thought that nearly ALL Acadian marriages are to cousins. My wife and I have some Acadian ancestors, and sure enough, we find we are 6th cousins. -- Charlie Hoffpauir http://my.rootsmagic.com/CRHoffpauir/ http://sites.rootsmagic.com/CharlieHoffpauir/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/ http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Hoffpauir