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From: "Janet Masters" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: GENEALOGY-DNA-D Digest V03 #474
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:23:33 -0700
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Mary Lou:

Read this one. This doesn't surprise me at all.

Janet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: GENEALOGY-DNA-D Digest V03 #474


> Mary,
>
> Thanks David for the kind words. My expertise is with PA Germans. Since
> PA was anti-slavery very early on due to the Quaker influence, there was
> not much slave holding in the Commonwealth and thus not as much chance
> numerically for African male admixture to occur. I have not run into any
> occurrences in the PA Germans tested that I know of. Since the slave
> (black) population was much great in the south, then it would seem more
> likely that such admixture would occur down there.
>
> The Y chromosome result speaks for itself. Obviously your direct male
> ancestor was ultimately of African origin.
>
> As I said earlier, I would highly recommend the book, "Reflections of
> Our Past- How Human History is Revealed in Our Genes". There is quite a
> bit in the book concerning European and African admixture, both European
> male to African female and vice versa.
>
> Charles
>
>
> David Faux wrote:
> >
> > Hello Mary:
> >
> > I am hoping that Charles Kerchner will reply to your posting as he is
your very best resource on the matter. In the meanwhile you might want to
explore his DNAPrint database at www.kerchner.com/cgi-kerchner/dnaprint.cgi
. At the top of this site he also provides a link to his PA Dutch
roject - whose objective is to ascertain the alleged East Asian
contribution to that ethnic group.
> >
> > Likely Charles will have more to say on the matter.
> >
> > David.
> >
> > Mary Harkey Russell <> wrote:
> > David, My three people only had Y-DNA done , not the print test which I
am
> > trying to understand??? but what you said below caught my eye. Our
> > ancestors are mostly German who came to PA and then to NC yet the
Haplotype
> > shown on their tests is E2-- Gambia. While my main concern was that the
> > 3 tests matched, which they did, the haplotype is very puzzling. This
test
> > is for the surname Harkey-Herche-Harky etc. We don't have a page yet.
> > Mary
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Faux"
> > East Asian alleles are showing up at relatively high rates where they
> > "shouldn't" (e.g., among some PA Dutch). These problems simply confuse
an
> > already chaotic picture.
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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