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To: ManyMoose who wrote (326)	6/12/2009 12:42:11 PM
From: caly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 443

I can give you several examples as I've had quite a few cousins of my different surname lines tested. 1. With my own surname, I've been stuck on my 7th great grandfather for over a decade who was in the Philadelphia area in by 1693. I had no idea where he came from, but there was another man with the same surname in the same burough in the same time frame who was from Cornwall, England. There's no documentation that ties the men together whatsoever, and I only know for certain that my ancestor was not this other man's son based on estate records. Long story short, my Gilbert line's DNA matches this other Gilbert line's DNA. This confirms the relationship. Now we're just trying to figure our where in Cornwall these two men were from and how they were related. 2. My great grandfather b. 1844 in Tennessee was known to have been illegitimate. My grandmother gave my aunt just enough information that I thought I had figured out who his father was. This name was confirmed by a very distant 95 year old relative in Tennessee who said that name had also been passed down through her branch which was a "legitimate" branch of the family. I had a "legitimate" cousin DNA tested, and he did indeed match another even more distant cousin from this line. I then had an "illegitimate" cousin tested, and he did not match as expected. After years of searching, I eventually found a descendant to be tested of the family line I thought was my great grandfather's true genetic roots, and sure enough they matched. It confirmed the family lore. 3. Everyone for decades who has been researching another surname of mine has been stuck on our ancestor born in about 1778 in a place unknown. We first find him on tax lists in Kentucky in the late 1700s. Just within the past couple I found a descendant to be DNA tested, and he has matched a man England with the same surname, as well as a Canadian branch of this line. We will now try to work backwards from England trying to figure how my ancestor might tie in. In my surname project I administer, two of my 60+ year old participants learned through DNA testing that their fathers weren't their fathers. In one case, the man's mother had had a 10 year affair with his uncle, and his uncle was his father. He had no clue. In the other case, the man was born illegitimate and adopted as a baby by the man who married his mother and raised him as his known. He also had no clue and was initially devastated. Since then, however, he has found his biological half-siblings and has met them for the first time. Everyone was thrilled to become acquainted. They apparently knew he existed, but had no information on him. I have lots more examples, but those are just a few.