Rebecca The other test I would combine with the YDNA 37 or 67 would be mtDNA plus. Being and adoption I am guessing the mother would also be unknown. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Taylor" <rt-sails@comcast.net> To: <y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] Y-DNA-PROJECTS Choosing a testing company > Rebecca asked what sort of DNA test to get and from what company. She > mentioned an adoption in the paternal line of her husband and the father > of > their children. > > To emphasize more strongly what others have said: If you want to trace the > paternal line, the test of choice is Y-DNA STR with at least 37 markers. > (67 > is better.) Matching sets (to a high degree) of values between pairs of > results indicate a common male ancestor is shared by both men. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 5205 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

No, the mother is known, but I do not know her mtDNA. I do have a pretty complete ancestry for her back to 18-19C France. My daughter gets lots of French Canadian sounding hits on her FF. Would knowing the mother's mtDNA help sort out maternal from paternal line hits in the FF test of either my husband or, in the case of my daughter, father's maternal from paternal lines? -----Original Message----- From: Bob May <tpibob44@bigpond.com> To: rt-sails@comcast.net; y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, Oct 27, 2010 6:03 am Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] Y-DNA-PROJECTS Choosing a testing company Rebecca The other test I would combine with the YDNA 37 or 67 would be mtDNA plus. Being and adoption I am guessing the mother would also be unknown. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Taylor" <rt-sails@comcast.net> To: <y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] Y-DNA-PROJECTS Choosing a testing company > Rebecca asked what sort of DNA test to get and from what company. She > mentioned an adoption in the paternal line of her husband and the father > of > their children. > > To emphasize more strongly what others have said: If you want to trace the > paternal line, the test of choice is Y-DNA STR with at least 37 markers. > (67 > is better.) Matching sets (to a high degree) of values between pairs of > results indicate a common male ancestor is shared by both men. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 5205 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to Y-DNA-PROJECTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message