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Subject: Re: [DNA] Best way forward
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:55:12 EDT

In a message dated 09/01/03 8:15:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

> I would be glad of some advice. The situation is that I and my third
> cousin
> match 23/25 and are both R1a Haplogroup, mine confirmed and his
> surmised.
> Now if I have to pay for the tests myself which is the optimal plan.
> Potential candidates are, a brother and/or son of the third cousin, my
> son,
> a fourth cousin of mine (this take us back one further generation, i.e.
> 1767
> rather than 1797) or a potentially related cousin. The latter two have
> been
> reluctant to agree to testing and so I would have to pay. Testing which
> of any of these
> individuals would have the greatest pay off? And which tests, just Y
> plus or
> also Haplogroup tests.


I'd vote for the fourth cousin. With some luck, he could "split the
difference" between you and your third cousin. That is, he would match each of you
24/25, and you'd be on your way to determining which of the mismatched values
belong to your common ancestor.

I'd skip the haplogroup tests myself. So far the tests seem to confirm the
"best guess" provided by FTDNA. [Can anyone think of an exception?] I'd reserve
the haplogroup tests for situations where FTDNA comes up with several
different alternatives and no clear favorite. And even then, I'd do a thought
experiment: what would I do differently if the haplogroup test came out one way versus
another way?

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