Hi Wilbur: Are you connected at all with the Lawson families out of Jefferson County, GA circa 1790-1870?? Bob Temples Edmonds, WA -----Original Message----- From: Wilbur Lawson [mailto:wllaws@mcn.org] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 5:46 PM To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SC] Family Chronicles Herb: Thanks for your plug for 37 marker tests versus 12 markers. Should speed up many family sites!! Wilbur Lawson At 04:59 PM 3/6/06 , you wrote: >For those interested in DNA there is quite a good article in this months >issue of Family Chronicles found in the magazine racks at Barnes and Noble >Bookstores. > >S. C. Meates' article "Taking a Y-DNA Test, What Can be Expected" contains a >lot of useful information that explains the pitfall of 12 marker only >testing and explains in an excellent manner what 37+ marker testing provides >in separating out family members. > >Meates' illustrates the short falls of initial 12 marker testing and >documents the necessity in this approach of searching the Y-Base, Y search >and SMGF (12-18 marker search bases) usage to try an connect to a surname >which not often matches to your desired surname. > >Overall an excellent article to bring you up to speed and he labors hard to >show what is necessary to know when doing Y-DNA testing. > >God Bless. >Herb Hendricks >Retired NASA Physicist >Hendricks DNA Project Group Administrator >Secretary Hendricks Family Association >Herb_316@MSN.com<mailto:Herb_316@MSN.com> >1210 Long Meadow DR >Lynchburg, VA 24502 >434 832 7246 >Major/Smith/Hendricks >http://www.ftdna.com/public/hendricks/<http://www.ftdna.com/public/hend ricks/> > > >==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== >SCRoots Message Archives >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SCROOTS > >============================== >Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. >Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== Subscription instructions are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/SC/misc.html#SCROOTS ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx