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Subject: Re: [DNA] DNA results utilized in hereditary societies?
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:52:29 EDT
In a message dated 7/14/2005 9:57:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
writes:
If you get right down to it, paper trails can have the same problem of
"other
scenarios."
Ironic is that there are probably "descendants" of the qualifying ancestor
who aren't descendants of him at all because of non-paternity events but they
have a paper trail which show the right relationships. I know I have a WEBB
line in which there is paper documentation in Civil War pension papers of one
WEBB being the uncle of another WEBB but descendants of the uncle have a
different DNA than the descendants of the nephew. Now I have no idea if either
line's descendants are members of a hereditary society or not, but it does
point up the the fact that paper trails can admit people with no genetic
descendancy.
Anne
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