On the other side of 'approaching,' and having no matches at the 67 marker level, I'm chuckling at your wry humor while waiting... Merry Christmas all, Neil McDonald R1b1a2 (tested) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph W. Wyndrum Jr." <rwyndrum@comcast.net> To: <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [S-I] DNA sale > All, > So if we all survive, we wait a few years and we'll know? I'm approaching > my > 75th birthday..... > Ralph > > Dr. Ralph W. Wyndrum Jr., LFIEEE > Adjunct Faculty, Rutgers University > CEO Executive Engineering Consultants > 2009 Board Chairman, American Ass'n > of Engineering Societies, Washington DC > Past President, IEEE-USA > Phone 732-219-0005; fax -0006; Mobile 732-809-3811

You would be fortunate to find a perfect 67-marker match within the last 7 or 8 generations. I did and it's a distant cousin from the same common ancestor, but through sons by different wives. However there are two cousins from the same son as his, but through different greatgrandsons of our common ancestor, and their results differ from us by one unit on two markers, but with only one of those "deviant" markers being the same for each. We also have 2-marker differences with two people with the same (or similar) surname, but we (and they) have not been able to establish a common ancestor even though we all appear to be related through an even older ancestor. Thus, you should also be looking for matches who differ from you by one or two markers and not concentrate on finding perfect matches. Let genealogical data should be your primary tool, with Y-DNA testing serving as additional information to aid further searching. Les Tate N44383 ================== Dec 23, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Neil McDonald (macbd1) wrote: > On the other side of 'approaching,' and having no matches at the 67 marker > level, I'm chuckling at your wry humor while waiting...

My son and husband's test results came back with one marker difference....there is already a mutation in one generation down. I agree with Les. On Dec 23, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Les Tate wrote: > You would be fortunate to find a perfect 67-marker match within the last 7 or 8 generations. I did and it's a distant cousin from the same common ancestor, but through sons by different wives. However there are two cousins from the same son as his, but through different greatgrandsons of our common ancestor, and their results differ from us by one unit on two markers, but with only one of those "deviant" markers being the same for each. We also have 2-marker differences with two people with the same (or similar) surname, but we (and they) have not been able to establish a common ancestor even though we all appear to be related through an even older ancestor. > > Thus, you should also be looking for matches who differ from you by one or two markers and not concentrate on finding perfect matches. Let genealogical data should be your primary tool, with Y-DNA testing serving as additional information to aid further searching. > > Les Tate > N44383 > ================== >