Yes, to do DNA testing there has to be a male descendant to test and it also helps to prove his descent as far as he can go on his family by the paper trail. There are surname groups at DNA companies where one can do DNA testing to see who they match with in that particular surname. In our family we have a male Cushenberry to test and the Quisenberry family has two males who have done their DNA testing so we are waiting for the results on my line to see if it matches with the Quisenberry line or not. I am not going to exhume any dead body to prove a lineage. LOL !! Marianne Dillow Aug 15, 2010 09:03:39 PM, vafauqui@rootsweb.com wrote: > >Oh I understand, but your e-mail seemed to imply that you might have exhumed >the subject who died in 1792. I guess what you were saying is you submitted yDNA >from a male who was a proven descendant of the subject?? > >> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:18:43 -0500 >> From: marlowest155@verizon.net >> To: vafauqui@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [VAFAUQUI] DNA testing >> >> We got a male to test from my line and one from the Quisenberry's >from Va. If they match from the DNA kit and the lab at the company they are kin. >If they don't match they are not kin. People are doing it all the time on brick >walls. It takes a male to test. :) >> >> Marianne Dillow >> >> >> Aug 15, 2010 01:12:31 PM, vafauqui@rootsweb.com wrote: >> >> > >> >>Curiously, how are you testing the yDNA of a person who died in >1792??? >> > >> > >> > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:43:37 -0500 >> >> From: marlowest155@verizon.net >> >> To: vaorange@rootsweb.com >> >> CC: vacaroli@rootsweb.com; vafauqui@rootsweb.com; vastaffo@rootsweb.com; vaculpep@rootsweb.com >> >> Subject: [VAFAUQUI] Ragland, Bush and Quisenberry >> >> >> >> We are still waiting on the DNA results on Moses Cushenberry that >died >> >in Bourbon Co., Ky in 1792 to see if he matches with the Aaron Quisenberry, >Sr. >> >family in Va or not whose sons are Rev. James Quisenberry and his >brother John >> >A. Quisenberry that was in Clark Co., Ky. >> >> >> >> While doing some research I found something very interesting. >My 8th great >> >grandparents are Evan Ragland Sr that married Susanna Pettus daughter >of Stephen >> >Pettus. Evan Ragland was born 1656 in St. Decumens, Somerset Co., England >and died >> >30 May 1717 in New Kent Co., Va. I descend from their son Stephen Ragland >who died >> >1747 in Northampton Co., NC and his daughter Agnes Ragland who first >married Ephraim >> >Merritt and after he died she married my grandfather Joseph Langston. >This family >> >moved to Logan Co., Ky. >> >> >> >> This is by other researchers : >> >> >> >> In Clark Co., Ky,. Nathaniel Thomas Ragland married Sallie Quisenberry > >> >daughter of Rev. James Quisenberry and Jane Burris. He was born 16 >Mar 1801in Clark >> >Co., Ky. and died 19 Sep 1882 in Clark County, Ky. >> >> >> >> He had a brother William Harrison Ragland that married Sallie >Bush Quisenberry >> >20 Aug 1832 who is the daughter of Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy >Bush. >> >> >> >> These Quisenberry's are not kin to me as I know of yet until >the DNA >> >results come back but these Ragland men would be distant cousins of >my Ragland line >> >from Evan Ragland, Sr and Susanna Pettus of Virginia. >> >> >> >> Marianne Dillow >> >> Illinois >> >> >