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Subject: What exactly do my results mean
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:26:50 EST


I recently got my brother to submit DNA to the Thomas surname project on
familytreedna.com. We got the 12 marker test done and it matched with another
Thomas that I had no clue existed. My research shows that one immigrant in 1717
had only two sons John and Michael who were born before 1720. I can prove my
ancestry and the children of Michael but John seems to be lost after 1770.
HOWEVER, this gentleman claims descendancy from a William, son of a John and
William was born pre 1770 in the same place that John and Michael lived.
We got our 37 marker test done and matched on all except # 458 ( my line was
19, he was 18) and our 464 markers were -- Mine 13, 13, 15, 18 and his were
13, 13, 15, 18.
My question from those of you who are so much more expert in this -- Is it an
excellent, good, fair, poor or nada expectation that his John and my John are
the same people since same surname, same time period, same locality and with
this DNA results. FYI, the MRCA would be 9 generations from my brother and 8
from the other gentleman. Is this enought info to make this determination. I
have another question that I'll ask about our haplogroup when I understand this
much of the equation. PS I need simplified explanations. my learning curve is
growing but still pretty low at this time. Thanks. Marilyn Thomas Hansen

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