For general infomation. I recently had a 67 marker test done through family tree DNA at some expence.The results are disapointing in that they are totally inconclusive,but mainly i found them to be written in scientific jargon,which I found meaningless,despite buying a book on the subject in an attempt to seek clarifycation on the whole report.I would suggest to the authors that they produce future reports in what is called "Plain English"(or American,obviosly).I gained nothing from it,even the suggestion that I belong to"Haplogroup J2" was an unverified speculation.I do not recomend this test. R.Thomas _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

I am sorry to hear you had a negative result. Yes it does take a scientist to understand all the scientific jargon. But it is interesting no less. Inconclusive results just means not enough people have done the tests for them to combine the results so that it makes sense to you... it makes sense to them - which doesn't help you I know. I gather you did not do the test through the THOMAS DNA project? http://thomasdna.home.comcast.net/~thomasdna/ For many this test has been a confirmation of the line that they descend from. Perhaps you can still submit you results. You can compare your results with others by clicking on the link "test results". You should have also gotten an email telling you who you connect to and a log in code for the family tree dna website to connect to those people. Leslie Thomas V.P. Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association Communication Chair GATOTA President Gilmer County Historical Society 'If man cares not for his roots, then how can he care for his branches?' --Doyle M Davis On Mar 26, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Rory Thomas wrote: For general infomation. I recently had a 67 marker test done through family tree DNA at some expence.The results are disapointing in that they are totally inconclusive,but mainly i found them to be written in scientific jargon,which I found meaningless,despite buying a book on the subject in an attempt to seek clarifycation on the whole report.I would suggest to the authors that they produce future reports in what is called "Plain English"(or American,obviosly).I gained nothing from it,even the suggestion that I belong to"Haplogroup J2" was an unverified speculation.I do not recomend this test. R.Thomas _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to THOMAS- request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message