Marleen, Did you confirm those results with DNA from different sons from both men? I had a similar situation and there had been a NPE in one line, which was discovered when we had a second son from that line test. Roberta -------------- Original message -------------- From: Marleen Van Horne <[email protected]> > Throwing away thirty years of research happened in the Oden project, but > it was not the result of a MAP, as far as we know. > > The problem is that two men, Solomon Oden and Thomas Oden lived in the > same county at approximately the same time. Descendants of Solomon > spent 30 years trying to connect Solomon to Thomas's family. Genetic > testing showed there was no biological connection between the two > families. Solomon is in the I1 haplogroup and Thomas is R1b1b2. Oden > is a common surname in the Scandinavian countries which would go along > with the I1 haplogroup. The other Oden family has English, and possibly > further back French origins, as the name may have evolved from Odeon. > > I am afraid I do not have much sympathy with people who cling to > pedigrees that do not contain their ancestors. What is the point? > > Marleen Van Horne > > > > ------------------------------- > The topic of this list is Y-DNA *surname* projects. Discussion of geographic, > haplogroup, or mtDNA projects is off topic for this list. > ------------------------------- > 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