[or-roots] If DNA testing has led to confusion...

[Dale Harguess]

Great explanation.  I am not so good with words and sometimes I trip over
my own tongue.  I was able to discover, through DNA testing that my
mother's father wasn't who she thought he was and also to learn the
identity of her real father.  I now have pictures of my mother's half
brother's that she wasn't even aware of.  They all lived in Portland and
even though the pictures were taken in the 1920's I can see a strong family
resemblance to me and my sister.
Dale

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Denise Sproed <DeniseSproed at onlinenw.com>
wrote:

> A child receives 50% of their DNA from each parent.  That means that each
> parent had 50% more to offer that will not appear in a given child’s DNA.
> The blessing of autosomal recombinant DNA is each and every child is a
> little bit different.  So yes, there is value in testing your siblings.
> You will both match the same close cousins (1st-2nd) but you will each
> have inherited different segment matches to those cousins that are 3-8th
> cousins.  And genealogist’s are looking for clues to all their relatives.
>
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> My grandmother was one of 13 children.  If all 13 were alive I might have
> tested all of them.  As it is, I tested the two living brothers and then
> the two living sons of my grandmother to show a representation of HER DNA.
> I tested all 3 siblings in my own family and it is the patterns that help
> me see clues to our inheritance.
>
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> DNA is sort of a scientific logic puzzle.  It makes me think and I enjoy
> the challenge.  You can focus on only the ‘low hanging fruit’ with the
> stronger matches or you can reach higher for the fruit in the highest
> branches (with the cM 8-12) and see if you can figure those branches out.
>
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>
> DNA is simply one clue – it confirms you ARE related.  It doesn’t not
> actually confirm you are not related when you do not match, unless your
> hypothesis was a close one.  I use it in Oregon to work on the emigrant
> families from the region of Hungary.  A large group of emigrants came in
> 1902-1906 and I’m trying to sort out which are related to one another and
> which simply lived in the same town.
>
>
>
> Denise Sproed
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>
> *From:* or-roots [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] *On
> Behalf Of *Marilyn Schwartz
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 19, 2015 1:24 PM
> *To:* 'or-roots mail list' <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
> *Subject:* Re: [or-roots] If DNA testing has led to confusion...
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> If my brother, who most certainly has the same two parents as I, has done
> a DNA test, is there any reason I should as well?  Won’t the results be the
> same?
>
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> *From:* or-roots [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> <or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>] *On Behalf Of *Denise Sproed
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 19, 2015 8:01 AM
> *To:* 'or-roots mail list'
> *Subject:* [or-roots] If DNA testing has led to confusion...
>
>
>
> I have done DNA testing on all my immediate family and quite a few distant
> cousins.  I volunteer in the Genealogy Section at the Salem Public Library
> to help people understand and work with their DNA testing.  I’m there on
> the last Thursday of each month 5-7 pm and will meet people by appointment
> at the library.
>
>
>
> Happy to help my Oregon friends and relatives.
>
>
>
> Denise Sproed
>
> A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists
>
> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/denisesproed?fref=ts>
>
> My genealogy recorded in The Master Genealogist
> <http://www.whollygenes.com/> with the webpage created using John
> Cardinal's Second Site <http://ss.johncardinal.com/>
>
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sproed/  and Ancestry
> <http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/51379704/family>
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