That's the easy part but not one of the matches for my mother contains either her's or her mother's maiden names!! I don't recognize any of the names in her matches and I know that lineage back for 5 generations. I'm assuming her matches are the sister's, daughter's and granddaughter's to an early ancestor of hers and I can't put the puzzle pieces together because I know none of these names! But, I guess that's why we all love genealogy ~ it's the thrill of putting the pieces together to the grandest puzzle of all times! ----- Original Message ----- From: "edwilson" <ed.wilson@comcast.net> To: wilson@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:54:16 PM Subject: Re: [WILSON] clarify for me please....it's been a while start with your mother's maiden surname--then her mother's maiden surname etc---difficult to say the least-- -----Original Message----- From: Linda Richards Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 10:53 AM To: wilson@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WILSON] clarify for me please....it's been a while So, how does one go about finding out just who is who with mDNA considering all the name changes?? Linda Richards - Sent from my iPad On Jan 14, 2012, at 12:17 AM, Jan Ashford <jan@theashfords.org> wrote: > The catch is that the mDNA did not come from his mother's Wilson line, > it came from her mother's line. It won't give you a Wilson link. > > On 01/13/2012 06:51 PM, roberta hall wrote: >> Yes in your first line you said my father's mDNA comes from his mother >> she >> is my Wilson connection. With his sample already in storage maybe now I >> can >> get the money scraped together and have it tested for the Wilson mDNA. >> It's >> not the same as a YDNA but this may be the only way I can get a Wilson >> allele line established. >> Thank you :-) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wilson-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:wilson-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >> Behalf Of Jan Ashford >> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 4:09 PM >> To: wilson@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [WILSON] clarify for me please....it's been a while >> >> Your father's mDNA came from his mother. Your's came from your mother. >> Your mother's came from her mother. Your mother's father's came from his >> mother, but he did not pass it on to anyone. I think is gets confusing >> because the surnames change. You are quite right, your father's sample >> is >> no help at all on your mother's lines. I hope this helps a little. >> >> >> On 01/13/2012 03:21 PM, roberta hall wrote: >>> Again, sorry still not clear.....the Estes sample is that of my >>> father's (I have not supplied a sample) what information would it >>> have of my mother, his wife? >>> You also mention both sons and daughters receive the mDNA so would >>> that mean that both his father (an Estes YDNA) and his mother (the >>> Wilson mDNA) would be in the same sample? As the granddaughter of this >>> pair I can see how my mDNA profile would be of my mother's side and >>> would not work. My father was one of 4 boys my grandparents had my >>> grandmother being the only direct line Wilson female in the family. >>> Wait I think a light bulb just went off....(mother to mother) my >>> grandmother born a Wilson sur-name of her father but her mother was a >>> Mullen so my father would have the Mullen mDNA and nothing of the >>> Wilson line...is that correct? Or would he indeed have the Wilson mDNA >>> factor given to him by his mother? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WILSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WILSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

how many marker's were tested- -the fewer tested equals more matches--using male dna as example---I have over 1200 matches on the 12 marker test-- means I'am desc from "common" part of europe--- back to your issue--if you know the maiden name back 5 generations you are ahead of most folks--take any one of those--go to ancestry--see if tree exists for that surname in the applicable time frame--then determine if your ancestor was part of that family -----Original Message----- From: lindarichards@comcast.net Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:18 PM To: wilson@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WILSON] clarify for me please....it's been a while That's the easy part but not one of the matches for my mother contains either her's or her mother's maiden names!! I don't recognize any of the names in her matches and I know that lineage back for 5 generations. I'm assuming her matches are the sister's, daughter's and granddaughter's to an early ancestor of hers and I can't put the puzzle pieces together because I know none of these names! But, I guess that's why we all love genealogy ~ it's the thrill of putting the pieces together to the grandest puzzle of all times! ----- Original Message ----- From: "edwilson" <ed.wilson@comcast.net> To: wilson@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:54:16 PM Subject: Re: [WILSON] clarify for me please....it's been a while start with your mother's maiden surname--then her mother's maiden surname etc---difficult to say the least-- -----Original Message----- From: Linda Richards Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 10:53 AM To: wilson@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WILSON] clarify for me please....it's been a while So, how does one go about finding out just who is who with mDNA considering all the name changes?? Linda Richards - Sent from my iPad On Jan 14, 2012, at 12:17 AM, Jan Ashford <jan@theashfords.org> wrote: > The catch is that the mDNA did not come from his mother's Wilson line, > it came from her mother's line. It won't give you a Wilson link. > > On 01/13/2012 06:51 PM, roberta hall wrote: >> Yes in your first line you said my father's mDNA comes from his mother >> she >> is my Wilson connection. With his sample already in storage maybe now I >> can >> get the money scraped together and have it tested for the Wilson mDNA. >> It's >> not the same as a YDNA but this may be the only way I can get a Wilson >> allele line established. >> Thank you :-) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wilson-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:wilson-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >> Behalf Of Jan Ashford >> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 4:09 PM >> To: wilson@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [WILSON] clarify for me please....it's been a while >> >> Your father's mDNA came from his mother. Your's came from your mother. >> Your mother's came from her mother. Your mother's father's came from his >> mother, but he did not pass it on to anyone. I think is gets confusing >> because the surnames change. You are quite right, your father's sample >> is >> no help at all on your mother's lines. I hope this helps a little. >> >> >> On 01/13/2012 03:21 PM, roberta hall wrote: >>> Again, sorry still not clear.....the Estes sample is that of my >>> father's (I have not supplied a sample) what information would it >>> have of my mother, his wife? >>> You also mention both sons and daughters receive the mDNA so would >>> that mean that both his father (an Estes YDNA) and his mother (the >>> Wilson mDNA) would be in the same sample? As the granddaughter of this >>> pair I can see how my mDNA profile would be of my mother's side and >>> would not work. My father was one of 4 boys my grandparents had my >>> grandmother being the only direct line Wilson female in the family. >>> Wait I think a light bulb just went off....(mother to mother) my >>> grandmother born a Wilson sur-name of her father but her mother was a >>> Mullen so my father would have the Mullen mDNA and nothing of the >>> Wilson line...is that correct? Or would he indeed have the Wilson mDNA >>> factor given to him by his mother? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WILSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WILSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WILSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Using mDNA is really hard. You would need to look down from each ancestress at all her daughters, and their daughters. The best hope is if each of those matches knows who their maternal ancestors are and you can compare lineages. The current surnames aren't going to tell you anything. On 01/15/2012 02:18 PM, lindarichards@comcast.net wrote: > That's the easy part but not one of the matches for my mother contains either her's or her mother's maiden names!! I don't recognize any of the names in her matches and I know that lineage back for 5 generations. I'm assuming her matches are the sister's, daughter's and granddaughter's to an early ancestor of hers and I can't put the puzzle pieces together because I know none of these names! But, I guess that's why we all love genealogy ~ it's the thrill of putting the pieces together to the grandest puzzle of all times! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "edwilson"<ed.wilson@comcast.net> > To: wilson@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:54:16 PM > Subject: Re: [WILSON] clarify for me please....it's been a while > > start with your mother's maiden surname--then her mother's maiden surname > etc---difficult to say the least-- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linda Richards > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 10:53 AM > To: wilson@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WILSON] clarify for me please....it's been a while > > So, how does one go about finding out just who is who with mDNA considering > all the name changes?? > > Linda Richards - Sent from my iPad > > > > On Jan 14, 2012, at 12:17 AM, Jan Ashford<jan@theashfords.org> wrote: > >> The catch is that the mDNA did not come from his mother's Wilson line, >> it came from her mother's line. It won't give you a Wilson link. >> >> On 01/13/2012 06:51 PM, roberta hall wrote: >>> Yes in your first line you said my father's mDNA comes from his mother >>> she >>> is my Wilson connection. With his sample already in storage maybe now I >>> can >>> get the money scraped together and have it tested for the Wilson mDNA. >>> It's >>> not the same as a YDNA but this may be the only way I can get a Wilson >>> allele line established. >>> Thank you :-) >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: wilson-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:wilson-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >>> Behalf Of Jan Ashford >>> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 4:09 PM >>> To: wilson@rootsweb.com >>> Subject: Re: [WILSON] clarify for me please....it's been a while >>> >>> Your father's mDNA came from his mother. Your's came from your mother. >>> Your mother's came from her mother. Your mother's father's came from his >>> mother, but he did not pass it on to anyone. I think is gets confusing >>> because the surnames change. You are quite right, your father's sample >>> is >>> no help at all on your mother's lines. I hope this helps a little. >>> >>> >>> On 01/13/2012 03:21 PM, roberta hall wrote: >>>> Again, sorry still not clear.....the Estes sample is that of my >>>> father's (I have not supplied a sample) what information would it >>>> have of my mother, his wife? >>>> You also mention both sons and daughters receive the mDNA so would >>>> that mean that both his father (an Estes YDNA) and his mother (the >>>> Wilson mDNA) would be in the same sample? As the granddaughter of this >>>> pair I can see how my mDNA profile would be of my mother's side and >>>> would not work. My father was one of 4 boys my grandparents had my >>>> grandmother being the only direct line Wilson female in the family. >>>> Wait I think a light bulb just went off....(mother to mother) my >>>> grandmother born a Wilson sur-name of her father but her mother was a >>>> Mullen so my father would have the Mullen mDNA and nothing of the >>>> Wilson line...is that correct? Or would he indeed have the Wilson mDNA >>>> factor given to him by his mother? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WILSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WILSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WILSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message