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From: James Beall <>
Subject: Finding Danish ancestors
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 10:54:03 -0600

I notice there are several people looking for Danish ancestors, with very
little information to go on.

I'd like to raise awareness of a fairly new development in genealogy
research. It's called genealogy-driven DNA testing. The finer details of
this can be found by browsing the FamilyTreeDNA website:

http://www.familytreedna.com/

The most common way to participate has been to join a surname DNA project
group. Since Danish surnames are non-continuous before about 1850, I know of
no surname DNA project with a Danish focus. However, I was informed by FTDNA
that they do have a Welsh Patronymics Project. That group does not have a
narrow focus on any particular surname; they are mainly interested in the
quality of the Y-DNA matches.

Perhaps some people with continuous Danish male ancestry would consider
starting a Danish Patronymics DNA Project.

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Stuart-James Beall
Beall 414 in Beal Surname DNA Project study
Webmaster for Beal Surname DNA Project study
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Y-DNA results:
http://home.earthlink.net/~bealldna/ydna/results_basic.html
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