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From: "Roberta J. Estes" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] revealing full mtDNA sequence
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:52:19 -0500
In-Reply-To: <cfd.24b9a37f.349e4a96@aol.com>


Thanks Ann.

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Subject: Re: [DNA] revealing full mtDNA sequence

In a message dated 12/21/2007 5:41:49 PM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:

> That's a very interesting approach, meaning creating an entirely
> female file. What software did you use to extract only the females in the
line?
> For the sons, who obviously carried (or carry presently if descended
> in the current generation) the mtdna as well, did you have to do a lot
> of hand snipping of the tree or is there some software that has enough
> DNA smarts to do that for you?

I used PAFSPLIT, a program I wrote myself back in 1994 for the old DOS
version of PAF 2.31, and it automatically stopped adding descendants of any
males.
This route would not be practical nowadays. My inspiration for including
that feature was an article by Dr. Thomas Roderick for the NEHGS about the
potential of mtDNA testing. It only took another six years for mtDNA testing
to become commercially available!

The general approach for a WorldConnect upload was originally suggested by
Gregg Bonner, back in 2003.

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/genealogy-dna/2003-05/1053066122

His tutorial refers to a program called Fzip. The URLs in our archives are
obsolete. I Googled for a new location:

http://fzipft.com/

Ann Turner


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