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From: "Allan S. Gleason" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] my Y chromosome match with another surname
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:30:17 -0700
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You mean that you're related only because you both used the same laboratory? :>)

Allan


"Steven J. Zuraff" wrote:

> Here is a quick follow up to my message of last night.
> I've been told that the person I matched had to have his sample retested
> (using the sample from his tube B) because of "lab splash" which
> contaminated part of a batch of samples.
> Moreover, the man I matched did not match with his presumed relative who
> also sent in a sample.
> So maybe we have to consider the possiblity of a mistake by the lab. Future
> testing of additional individuals will help resolve this, but that will take
> time and money.
> Steve Z.
>
> "Steven J. Zuraff" wrote:
>
> > Yesterday (Sunday) I was informed by Family Tree DNA that I and someone
> > with a different surname match perfectly in all loci for all my alleles,
> > meaning that there is a 99.9% probability that we have a common
> > ancestor.
> > I've contacted the other individual, and after comparing notes, we can't
> > seem to figure out where our ancestors might have connected. Evidently
> > his ancestors were from England. They came to America in 1690 and
> > quickly moved south into South Carolina. By the mid 1800s they were in
> > Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas.
> >
> > My father's ancestors came from Prussia (now western Poland) in 1854.
> > They settled in the upper midwest: first Illinois, then Iowa, then South
> > Dakota.
> >
> > It is difficult to see how our lines could have ever crossed. They have
> > been geographically separated both in the U.S. and in Europe. (We are
> > exploring the infidelity angle with regards to my female ancestors in
> > America, but that means one of his male ancestors would have had to
> > travel up north. Some of them did work for the railroad, but we don't
> > know where it took them.)
> >
> > If our common ancestor was back in Europe, then you have to explain how
> > one line ended up in England and the other in Poland.
> >
> > Could our match be some sort of statistical fluke?
> >
> > Any comments or ideas?
> >
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