I just received the following message in regard to my RASEY Y-DNA Surname Project. As the two families involved belong to subclades of Haplogroup I2, I believe I could find no better group of experts to ask than subscribers to this list, so I would request your opinion. The project page is out-of-date with regard to all the recent changes to the Y-DNA haplotree, but I don't believe those have changed the relationship of the two families to each other: http://dgmweb.net/DNA/Rasey/RaseyDNA-results.html If I'm wrong about the two families not being connected in genealogical time, then I want to correct my error, though I'm baffled that he complains I don't give lineages. They're right there on the page (scroll to far right). This is the message: > From: David Harden [mailto:hrdndv@hotmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 4:16 PM > To: DianaGM@dgmweb.net > Subject: Rasey Y-DNA Surname Project > > This is a complaint that you are not putting correct > information on your site. I am PhD Biologist specializing > in speciation. I know DNA. When you get an individual > representing Joseph Rasey and Mary Hollan you must present > the paternal lineage so it can be checked. There are many > people out there that have erroneous lineages. There are > also many family children lists that are linked to the > wrong parent. Quite often a male child born to the mother’s > first husband will adopt the surname of the second husband. > These problems cannot be examined when you do not give the > full male lineage. Your conclusion that Joseph Rasey who > married Mary Hollan is not related to the other Joseph > Rasey is bogus. You do not know this. If you did not mean > to say this in the results page then you should correct it. > You present y-DNA results in an amateurish unprofessional > way. You need to go back to school and learn what you are > doing.