Elizabeth, According to what I've read and understand at this point, the Y chromosome transfers from father to son, and I've never read anything that indicated that race would change the transfer results. If you are referring to the Recent Ethnic Origins results from FTDNA, those are only as good as the countries of origin reported by people tested. It's really a statistical breakdown of what people listed for their ancestors and is not based on any specific part of the chromosome testing. If my current understanding is correct, it's possible that Daniel's father, grandfather, etc. were Sisson descendants, and Nathaniel would have passed the chromosome to his children, etc. I will write FTDNA to be sure that I understand this correctly, and let you know what I find out. What a great question. Sharon Miller ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 9:48 PM Subject: [SISSON-L] Nathaniel Sissen > Question: If my brothers DNA doesn't show a black heritage, could we still > have a history of that race from the maternal side of the family? I need to > know. > I went in to Ancestry and the 1870 census searching for my grandfather and > found this 1 year old child listed. He was born in AL, colored, 1 y/o, > 1870,County is Calhoun and the post office is White plains. > I then viewed the image and this is what I found: Daniel Sissen is the head > of the household, age 36 and b in SC. The wife is Sarah, age 36, b GA. Son is > Sam age 13, b AL, lokks like Cnahey female age 6, b AL, Eliza age 4, b AL and > Nathaniel age 1, b AL. I would like any information that is out there > regarding this family. > Elizabeth McGhee > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >