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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > Pam, yes, a female doing the Family Finder will get both sides of her DNA. > > For those who want the gory details, Family Finder is the autosomal DNA. > What that means is a person (male or female) gets 50% of their DNA from > their parents, 25% from each grandparent, 12.5% from each great, and so on. > > Y-DNA is a sex chromosome and is what makes a man a man. So a male takes > that test. > > mtDNA is passed down from a mother to all her children. So either a male > or female can take that test, but a male does not pass mtDNA down to his > offspring. Only the women do. > > Cheri Mello > Family Tree DNA Admin > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en. > > > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en.
