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Subject: Re: [DNA] DNA Project
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 14:32:08 EST
In a message dated 2/3/01 12:33:22 PM, writes:
<< Let us not overlook the possiblity that some children were "adopted"/taken
in by a family when their parents died and there was no paper trail to
document the event. Names changed and life went on to generate confusion
for their descendants hundreds of years later.
>>
Here's another one to consider:
We have documented in the Stidham family that three Stidham daughters
continued to use their Stidham surname AFTER they were married. Their
children all used this name too, including the sons of these women. Now in
these circumstances, the Stidham surname continues down these sons' lines,
but the Y chromosome of Timen Stiddem (later anglicized to Timothy Stidham,
our immigrant ancestor) does not, their biological father's Y does. These are
the kinds of knots that DNA testing will eventually unravel for those of us
seeking the unbiased truth, whatever it may be. I'm willing to find out.
Richard Steadham
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