In a message dated 1/27/03 8:48:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, dbstrong@sos.net writes: > I should re-iterate the point that the study participants MUST be male > Strange/Stronge/Strong/Strang/L'Estranges, or other variant spellings. > The > Y chromosome testing involved descends from father to son over many > generations, relatively unchanged (there is a mutation rate estimated at > one > in 500 years... which must be dealt with). However, as females do not > have > a Y chromosome, we can not follow the lineage to a male descendant of a > female member of the lineage. The linkage is broken, and the male > descendants of a female will have the Y-chromosome patterns of their > fathers Ohhhh, my GrandMother was the L'estrange and that linkage is broken. How sad...for me. Janice Boston