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From: Wilcox Lisa <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Problems with some surname project admins
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:12:03 -0800
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Change your subject line, guys.

On Nov 24, 2011, at 12:29 PM, John German wrote:

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> John Chandler wrote:
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>> Second, and more on the
>> theoretical side, we should all be acutely aware of the incidental
>> non-paternity statistics coming out of various studies of newborns.
>> Such statistics are at odds with the fact that so many surname
>> projects have successfully lined up conventional-genealogical
>> descendants of known progenitors and found their DNA to match. I have
>> long felt that there must be a correlation between interest in
>> genealogy and ancestral lineage intactness. In other words, the
>> early testees were more likely than average to carry the DNA of their
>> overt ancestors, regardless of whether their ancestry had been
>> correctly researched already. This phenomenon may also have
>> something to do with the continuing trickle of new and unmatching
>> results in the surname projects, as the projects build momentum and
>> start sweeping up less-and-less-avid testees.
>>
>>
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> You didn't suggest whether the NPEs were old or recent. In case of the
> latter I fear you have left out the testees ages. Baby boomers ushered
> in an age of promiscuity that is showing no reversal in out-of-wedlock
> births. I'll guess that more "Generation Xers" are interested in
> genealogy now than ten years ago when we were pioneering DNA testing for
> genealogy.
>
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