ydna testing has traced my paternal family back to a Welch ships carpenter who eventually set up housekeeping in SC in 1735, then proceeded to procreate like a rabbit, and his sons and grandsons followed suit.    I got cuzzins in San Diego, Texas, Toronto, Portland, Little Rock and St. Louis (the family genes had the good sense to avoid Idaho.) The mtDNA is harder to trace. Some of that is the lack of sufficient paper trails for wives (and "not-wives) that makes it difficult to know where to look. Some of it has to do with the differences in the way ydna and mtdna are passed on.

I guess it all comes down to we are all cuzzins, tho' it is right painful to acknowledge I am kin to Shane.


the DNA deposited via the typed word here in this thread, all traceable to MOM, will, no doubt, one day change all the world's thinking about kinship.

Provided, of course, the phreds don't shred it all first.