Thank you Orin, for your patience. I will keep trying to get my head around it. Jane On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:41 PM, OrinWells <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken is correct on the W036 identification for your family. We > originally thought the descendents from your branch, Joseph Wells, > were connected to W006, Thomas Wells, but discovered through DNA > testing this was not the case. We still don't know what happened > there. Another Wells family? or some intervention (still unidentified). > > The numbers can be confusing for the DNA testing. The "bottom line" > is two individuals ARE related if their DNA results (numbers) match > exactly. The are probably related if they have no more than three > differences (5 at 43 markers). Anything beyond that probably means > they may have a common ancestor a LONG way back in time, but they are > not related closely enough in recent times to ever have a chance of > finding genealogical paper trails to prove it. > > > At 09:38 AM 7/24/2009, [email protected] wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I have been busy for some months and unable to get to my genealogy work. > >When I return to my Wells work, I find that I have forgotten the > >designation of my Wells family. I speak of the W--- number that indicates > >my line in the DNA results. > > > >Further, I wonder if there is a textual description of the results that > >will make more sense to me that the table of results? I cannot make head > >nor tail of that. Unfortunately, I am a female with no known male > relatives > >who bear the surname, so feel that I cannot benefit from the DNA project. > >At least unless there is news that pertains to that line - but how to > >determine that? > > > >Also, some months ago, Bonita did a wonderful job of putting many lines on > >a web site. I have lost the URL of that web site. I would be very grateful > >if someone would advise me of that URL. > > > >Thanks for taking the patience to read what is perhaps too lengthy and > >varied a message. > > > >Jane Wells Sarles > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Orin R. Wells > Wells Family Research Association > P. O. Box 5427 > Kent, Washington 98064-5427 > <[email protected]> > http://www.wells.org > Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >