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From: "Marv Vikla" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] DNA, Bohemia and Finland
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:50:42 -0600
In-Reply-To: <098701c0439e$1b531f60$0302010a@Bennett>


Bennett, thanks for the reply. I provided a good education.
marv

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Subject: [DNA] DNA, Bohemia and Finland


Hi Marv

> I have my family traced back to 1700 in southern Bohemia, however, there
is
> no one with the VIKLA (or WIKLA) name in the Czech Republic today because
> all the males emmigrated to Minnesota or died before having any children.
> (There are descendants from my ggf's sister.)

And therefore we can't use theie descendents for Y chromosome DNA testing.

>
> But, there are others with this surname in Finland. I have a theory that
a
> Finnish conscript in the Swedish army stayed in Bohemia after one of the
> battles during the 30 Year's War. If this is true there would likely be 9
> generations between myself and this person. I know little about the
testing
> process and what can be learned from it. Can anyone shed light on the
> following questions?

9 Generations is not a very long time span when you are testing with DNA.
Since the move (or polymorphism) within the DNA is very slow if we were to
test you and the DNA matched either 12/12 or 11/12 on our 12 marker test,
then it would be highly likelily (99.9%) that you and the person mentiond
above would share a common ancestor. These numbers are calculable and
supplied by a popultion geneticist from the U of Arizona. He provides us
with statistics which show when the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) would
have appeared.

> * What, if anything, could be proven by just my DNA test?

Nothing.


> * Could you detect any Finnish ancestry?

Eventually. As more people come othe the database your 'scores' wil sort
with other people who have Finnish background. More ethnic grouping tests
are planned for next year, but on a group by group basis only. As you can
imagine it takes time to build databases for ethnic groups, and sometimes
the differences between groups are in name only.
>


> * If I convinced others in Finland to take a test, even though there would
> be 10 or more generations before a common ancester, what can be proven?

With other people from Finland took the test you would be able ot see with
100% certainty that you did not share a common ancestor and with a 99.9%v
certainly that you did share a common ancestor and you would be able ot see
the statistics that present a bounding box of when the MRCA would have lived

Bennett Greenspan FTDNA (Family Tree DNA) Houston


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