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Subject: Re: DNA tests,for Genealogy searches and facts.
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:04:07 EDT


In a message dated 9/23/04 8:28:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

> In a message dated 9/23/2004 9:44:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
>
> >Hypothetically,..If I could find male line descendants of James Christie x
> >Isabella Smith, and of James Christie x Jean Smith, and had their Y-DNA
> >tested, I could either: disprove my hypothesis that the two James Christies
> >are the same person (if their Y-DNA STR results were widely different); or
> >strengthen it (how much it would be strengthened would depend on how close
> >the results are, how rare the STR haplotype is &the narrow probability of
> >getting so close a match by chance in a two person comparison). The DNA
> >evidence would effectively increase my certainty level that the
> >circumstantial paper trail is correct.
> >
> >Sure it wouldn't necessarily prove it 100% beyond a doubt,...but surely
> >being 99.99% certain (or even 95% certain) is better evidence than 90%
> >certain????!
> >
> >John, Do ALL your traditional genealogical documents etc. provide you with
> >unambiguous "100% beyond a doubt" proof that individual "A" is the same
> >person as individual "B" (rather than merely a person with the same name in
> >the same place, at the more-or less the right time &more-or-less the right
> >age) ??? If so, congratulations !!
> >
> >Angela.
>
>
i have them all in in cement and told the people in the ftdna forum so 5 ways
to midnight
i have all the surrounding familys and yet i was told with all the paper and
mtdna and ydna hookups i still couldnt prove anything


if thats true what good is it and what good is paper trails and why be
geneaologists.
yeah stuff happens even if someone cheated or got raped i am still a Denning

Jim Denning
"Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations. Ask your
father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you." --
Deuteronomy 32:7 (NKJV)


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