Native American ancestry

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I have sent your message on to my friend

Hello Elisabeth

I have passed on your message to my friend and asked her if it would be OK to give you her email address so that you two could communicate directly. She did have the DNA Fingerprint test through FTDNA, but not the...

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Thanks for the NA info

I will pass on the information to my friend. I don't know where her family comes from, and since she is adopted, she is not really sure either.

She had 15% NA 85% European on the only test she took, but I don't have much faith in those percentages...

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Since this does not pertain directly to my own family, I am unfamiliar with which tests are best for identifying and clarifying Native American ancestry. A friend of mine believes she has NA ancestry, has already tested something with FTDNA (I asked her which tests she has had done) and asked if I...

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adoptees joining project

A few years ago I was contacted by someone with a name very different from"Whitney" who said that he believed that his great-grandfather was a Whitney, and that due to two generations of abandonments and adoptions, the surname was different. Still, ...

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Armstrongs

Bob
I was interested in your Armstrong background because my brother-in-law is an Armstrong, lives in England, and not particularly interested in genetic genealogy. However, his Armstrongs were border Reivers (living and fighting and raiding on the Scottish border) and...

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same name--different family

In the Whitney family, we had at least two well-documented lines, both the the surname "Whitney", and both reputed to have come from the town of Whitney-on-Wye which bore the family name. DNA testing has shown that the two Whitney families, one of...

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When will we be able to sign up for the conference?

Whitney Keen

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Can you place this E3b in a subclade?

This is my husband's haplotype. I haven't added any further than 12 markers primarilybecause he already only matches one person and I am not sure what additional would be learned by doing more. Haplogroup test was M35+ (E3b).
He doesn't seem...

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Different haplogroups

It does look as though you have a pretty solid group, but the two with different haplogroups are less likely to be related within genealogically useful time. If you think they still might be related, you might have their haplotypes tested to determine if they are...

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Irish E3b

Hi Jim
I just checked my husband's Ashkenazic E3b on YSearch, and found one 12/12 match with a person from Co. Kerry, whose tests were done byRelative Genetics. I will probably extend my husband's test to at least 25, but as of now, he has 2 matches, and the other one's...

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E3b

Yes, my husband is E3b. Background is Askenazic Jewish from the Unkraine (Ekaterinaslav) and BElarus near Minsk(Pobolov) on his father's line. They were there about 150 or more years. He has only one match in the FTDNA database on his Y. Generally, there are a lot of E3bs in North...

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I1a and I

Whit Athey's haplogroup predictor is just that, a predictor with probabilities of which haplogroup a given set of number returns fits. I1a is a subclade of I. His numbers are based on existing public information from people whose haplotype has been either tested or predicted....

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Arrival & departure data

I will be arriving on Friday at 5:40 PM from Newark, NJ and leaving on Sunday at 2:19 PM and will be staying at the Sheraton. Would love to eat dinner with some of you. I'm an omnivore, so if some of you earlier arrivals pick a spot, I'd be glad to tag...

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Max or Bennett

Before the conference on Oct 30, will you be posting the names of those GAs who are planning to attend? I think with all the various chat rooms, lists etc that we are on, some of us feel as though we know each other, but have actually never met. I realize that we will...

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We started with the 12-marker test because I felt that the family would not routinely spring for the 25, and I believed in the beginning that we would all match or be very close. That is not the case, and we will need to upgrade at least some people, but I am waiting for the family reunion to make...