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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks, Denise. That makes sense. Yes, obviously we don’t have exactly the same genes unless we are identical twins. So we may get some different information from each of us. I guess I need to do this too!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> or-roots [mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Denise Sproed<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 19, 2015 4:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'or-roots mail list'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [or-roots] If DNA testing has led to confusion...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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 (1<sup>st</sup>-2<sup>nd</sup>) but you will each have inherited different segment matches to those cousins that are 3-8<sup>th</sup> cousins. And genealogist’s are looking for clues to all their relatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Denise Sproed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> or-roots [<a href="mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marilyn Schwartz<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 19, 2015 1:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'or-roots mail list' <<a href="mailto:or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [or-roots] If DNA testing has led to confusion...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> or-roots [<a href="mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Denise Sproed<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 19, 2015 8:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'or-roots mail list'<br><b>Subject:</b> [or-roots] If DNA testing has led to confusion...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Happy to help my Oregon friends and relatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Denise Sproed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/denisesproed?fref=ts"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Facebook</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My genealogy recorded in </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.whollygenes.com/"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Master Genealogist</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> with the webpage created using John Cardinal's </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://ss.johncardinal.com/"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Second Site</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sproed/">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sproed/</a><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>and </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/51379704/family"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ancestry</span></a><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>