<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>Thanks for this helpful explanation.</span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, September 19, 2015 4:16 PM, Denise Sproed <DeniseSproed@onlinenw.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5045091761"><style>#yiv5045091761 #yiv5045091761 --
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#yiv5045091761 </style><div><div class="yiv5045091761WordSection1"><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">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.</span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">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.</span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">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.</span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">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.</span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Denise Sproed</span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5045091761yqt3186340703" id="yiv5045091761yqt19221"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> or-roots [mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marilyn Schwartz<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 19, 2015 1:24 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> 'or-roots mail list' <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [or-roots] If DNA testing has led to confusion...</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="">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?</span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> or-roots [<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank" 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 clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 19, 2015 8:01 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> 'or-roots mail list'<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> [or-roots] If DNA testing has led to confusion...</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">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.</span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Happy to help my Oregon friends and relatives.</span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Denise Sproed</span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists</span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/denisesproed?fref=ts"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Facebook</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"></span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">My genealogy recorded in </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.whollygenes.com/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">The Master Genealogist</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> with the webpage created using John Cardinal's </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://ss.johncardinal.com/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Second Site</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" 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;">and </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/51379704/family"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Ancestry</span></a><span style="color:#1F497D;"></span></span></div></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5045091761MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div></div></div></div><br><div class="yqt3186340703" id="yqt21063">_____________________________________________________<br clear="none">or-roots mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" href="mailto:or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots" target="_blank">http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots</a><br clear="none">Hosted by the Oregon State Library. 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