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