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From: "Kenneth V. Graves" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] My own y-DNA result delimma...
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 16:55:27 -0400
References: <JCHBN.020503.150015.RC0@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>


Greg wrote:
> we believed that we
> descended from a common ancestor named John REEVES (c1790-1840).
> Indeed, we had extensive, traditional genealogical
> evidence-------including John's 1840 Will probated in Bartholomew
> Co., IN in which my cousin's GGG grandfather, Michael Dean REEVES
> (1816-1906), and my GGG grandfather, David REEVES (1820-1896) each
> were named as sons!...
>
> We are still WANTING to believe that we both descend from this John
> REEVES, but we'll also confess that our one-step differences on 2
> different y-chromosome alleles are disconcerting.
Then John Chandler wrote:
<This is a clear case for going for the upgrade to 21 (soon to be 25)
loci for both samples.>

In my experience with the Graves/Greaves DNA project, it can be helpful to
upgrade to the 21-marker test, but I have found that it is much more
enlightening to follow John's second suggestion and get additional
participants. Given the 2 options, I would rather get a few more people from
different but related lines.

Ken Graves

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