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From: John Plant <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Famous DNA - the Plantagenet Y-DNA project
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:24:35 +0100
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Arch,

Sorry, I repeated myself a bit with this reply. I was getting confused
with a similar discussion I have going at the moment on a similar thread at:

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2007-08/1185962104

There is more discussion there about lines of descent though perhaps a
little less understanding of DNA techniques, which explains why my reply
which was perhaps a little tedious to those on this list who understand
DNA techniques already.

If you are interested in finding out more about bona fida lines of
descent, perhaps the GEN-MEDIEVAL list is the place to go.

John


John Plant wrote:
>
>
> Arch Yeomans wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> Sounds like a very massive project. It would be interesting to see a
>> project on Roman nobility such likes as King Constantine II of
>> Britain/Dumnonia and how connections are made to Magnus Maximus, etc.
>> The tough part is finding the legitimate claims to that ancestry to
>> start with.
>>
>> Arch
>>
>
> Arch,
>
> I admit that there are more problems to this sort of thing than many
> people might have originally imagined. The situation for mt-DNA (purely
> female lines) is that there is a prospect of obtaining the evidence from
> ancient remains but this prospect is (at least as yet) essentially
> non-existent for Y-DNA (purely male lines). There is a web page of
> "Famous DNA" at:
>
> http://www.isogg.org/famousdna.htm
>
> However, as yet, this includes rather few entries.
>
> John
>
>

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. John S Plant BSc PhD MBCS CITP MInstP MIDI KLUO
Computing, Finance & IT Directorate, Keele University, England, ST5 5BG.

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