On 25/01/2015 16:13, Stratton wrote: > DNA is interesting. In the right context and that, to me, does not include family history.
8>< Reason snipped for brevity > I do understand what these tests can do and what they cannot do. Also, > if people do not take the tests because of their concern for privacy or > other reasons, I do not have any chance at all. I have recently (last year) discovered my 6xgt grandfather after a 40 year search. He baptised my 5xgt grandfather in the middle of a neighbouring county, said he was from a town with no record of any other family member, so I suspect he was employed there, and his 'wife' was given her maiden name. The town she was given as being from was correct because I found her and her siblings and parents. No amount of DNA testing is going to find the next generation back or any siblings there may be. My grandmother was the one who interested me in genealogy. She was looking for her sister who no one else knew anything about. I have the sister's divorce (her petition). I have her remarriage and there it stops. Again no amount of DNA testing will find anything more. She married a SMITH. Although I have her probable death, the informant on the death certificate is her 'son'. He's more likely to be her step son, IF it's the right entry, since she was unlikely to have had any children of her own. She certainly didn't with her first husband. As, when and IF it ever becomes possible for a DNA test to give names, dates and places /with certainty/ (which it won't) instead of probable, possible, maybe a connection, I /might/ be interested. However the imbalance of extant males makes it all highly unlikely. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
