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From: "Gallaher, Brenda ." <>
Subject: RE: [WHITNEY-L] Rare blood type and DNA
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 07:59:23 -0600


Looks, though unscientific can also help determine family ties.

I look like a Gallaher. My 2nd cousin once removed looks like both me and
her great-grandmother [a Gallaher]. Once, while living in NJ as a teenager,
I was in a Hallmark shop. An older gentleman approached me and said he
wasn't trying to be fresh, but was my grandfather Norman Gallaher. That he
had gone to school with him and that I looked just like him. I said yes,
but that he must mean my father Norman Harry and not Norman Edward. [My
father is old enough to be my grandfather - we were called late-life babies
in those days]. Although he hadn't seen my father in over 20 years he knew
what family I belonged to.

Just a thought.

Brenda

B.B. Gallaher, Section Secretary
Utah State Office of Education
Evaluation & Assessment
250 East 500 South
Po Box 144200
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4200
801-538-7836


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Whitney [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:02 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Rare blood type and DNA


Also peculiar physical characteristics, manic depression genes and other
markers could indicate strong possible family connections, even though
probably doesn't constitute proof of relationship.

B. W.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Whitney Keen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:03 PM
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Rare blood type and DNA


> The YDNA surname project only analyzes the Y chromosome and can only
> show inheritance from father to son to son. There are a lot of other
> attributes in blood and other body fluids that are not shown in the Y
> chromosome but might show descent from a parent to child. The Y
> chromosome is never inherited by a daughter, so Y DNA analysis would be
> useless in determining inheritance that passes from a father to a
> daughter. However, a rare blood type could be inherited so it might
> show paternity or familial connection. The Y test we do for the project
> would not, and in any case it does not use blood, but saliva.
>
> Whitney Keen
>
>
>

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