On 17/03/2015 19:40, [email protected] wrote: > DNA certainly can be "infallible evidence". You've forgotten that it can be > exclusionary.
I haven't forgotten anything and DNA is fallible. I certainly wouldn't junk 50 (fifty) years research just because someone with a financial interest in trying to "prove" my research was wrong so they could sell me more tests that also wouldn't "prove" anything. I know where my family came from, I don't need to waste £100+ for a third party to tell me. I have a line that goes back to about 1590 in Somerset. I also have a line that goes back to around 1360 in the Chiltern area. That is an interesting line because it was always believed to connect to a family in Sussex which connections to royalty. Did it? Nooo. They were a Cornish family with no firm evidence of a connection to the Sussex one at all. There was no DNA involved in that, just good and careful research. > You don't always get much for money spent on DNA testing... More a case of not getting anything for money wasted on DNA testing in my book. Where DNA can sometimes be useful is where there's a 100 or 150 year old murder and physical evidence is still extant, something of an achievement in itself. The murder is believed to be X but the physical evidence, when the DNA is analysed, says it doesn't match. X is therefore innocent and the offender is Y against whom no action can be taken because s/he has long since passed from this mortal coil. My husband and I have three daughters. The eldest is very like me. The younger two are carbon copies of each other. Not too surprising except they aren't full blood siblings. The eldest two are step sisters to the youngest and there is absolutely NO connection between the two families. I don't need DNA to tell me there isn't. I already know there isn't. -- 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
