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Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: GENEALOGY-DNA-D Digest V03 #445
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 17:28:07 EDT
Grant:
Right you are....in that case. However, what if McQuilliken does a bad deed
in Scotland....leaves the area and comes to America (say in the 1600s). He
takes a new name, maybe a new identity all the way around...his new name is
"Smith." Then centuries later the Smiths want to compare DNA, etc. He isn't
going to make it, right? Or am I not seeing the missing piece of the puzzle.
Also, how about the slave people (even white slaves, by the way....known also as
indentured servants) that took their masters' names along the way. This could
create some real problems for the people trying to follow the DNA and the
genealogy!!! I believe all heck broke loose when the New Englanders started
heading West, for example. I guess we are all helping to put this puzzle together
by getting tested and posting the results....possibly it will fill in some of
these unknowns.
Barb By.
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