From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Aug 14 21:25:02 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7F3P2jb002938; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:25:02 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7F3P0lh013285 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:25:00 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7F0jMFI027178 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:45:22 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7F0jL1U027177 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:45:21 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7EKwqFI026624 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:58:52 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7ENcI1b007187 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:38:18 -0600 X-Envelope-From: fenenga@connpoint.net Mon Aug 14 17:38:18 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7ENcIjb007178 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:38:18 -0600 Received: from email-out.userservices.net (email-out.userservices.net [207.109.251.2]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7ENcGAh010752 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:38:17 -0600 Received: from your6bvpxyztoq (dialup-ras42-208.eug.or.uspops.net [205.215.252.208]) by email-out.userservices.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id k7ENcHHu015718 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:38:17 -0700 Message-ID: <026c01c6bffa$b7ec1730$07f9d7cd@your6bvpxyztoq> From: "Edwin and Cornelia Moore" To: References: <200608142300.k7EN0Z8r016028@lists5.rootsweb.com> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:38:16 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] DNA what happens when a line "daughters out"? we have no close male cousins at all. my grand parents were both "only" children, each being the only child born to their parents. they had 3 children of their own, my mother, my aunt and my uncle. my mother had 5 children, including one son, but his DNA traces back through a highly documented and easily researchable rare surname, not my mother's side. my aunt had one daughter, and my uncle had one daughter. the next generation back, my great grandparents, had 2 sons. one never married, the other had one son, but he's avoided tracing beyond the 1930 census and I do not know if he had a child. I do know he married, but it ended in divorce. his is a very common surname, Collins. we do have some distant male Wyrough and Wyrauck cousins, but I don't know if they will do any DNA....I'll ask my cousin Cheryl about that. that won't get our line, though. but it will get the common ancestor. the next generation back I have been unsuccessful in tracing forward far enough to find living cousins of the Collins' line, and the Weyrauch's are elusive at their very best. ok, so I keep tracking back to the next earlier generation and then track forward until I find a willing male descendant (for dna research), but daughtering out in our line is not good for dna research. and the further back someone goes the "thinner" the blood gets, and without good records, the harder the research gets. I feel some envy for those who can use dna in their research. Cornelia