this is fr Don Smothers wife....cuzzie Lu I call her.....great idea, would be neat if one of them did do it...he he. Isn't Tom Thomas Randall, thought I had his chart here somewhere, Nena Someone did wonder why only males for DNA.....its bec the Y Chromosome is the only one that is passed down fr father to son.....etc....this is how a Common Ancestor [male] is located within a span of 14.8 generation on the 12/12 marker DNA test. Now if a female wants to find out what 7 Dau's of EVE she and say, her cuz, are from....they can do the mtDNA test. Female DNA is passed to both sexes of children fr the mother. I think its an ole tale that use to say if one wanted to find out if a child was really so and so's child, then test the father..well, children also can have same blood type as mother. Oddly, all 4 of my children have my blood type 0 positive, which is rather common anyway. nena Family tree does have more info on the DNA Y chromosome http://www.familytreedna.com From: smomom@webtv.net (lucille smothers) To: smothersnena@hotmail.com (Nena Smothers) Subject: Re: *Smothers DNA Project 2003 Update* Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:13:22 -0700 (MST) Tom and Dick Smothers are coming to our Sundome March 3rd.....Barbara and Mark were chatting wth them at a restaurant recently......and they E-Mail back and forth. So I sent Barbara the DNA info. in case they are interested.....Tom is reserving 4 tickets for us to pick up for the performance......Cuzzie ~~~Lu~~~~ _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail