<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18828"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Courier New">That's a much sounder approach. The ancestral research would have to be verified (in this case done) anyway, but with this approach nothing is taken for granted.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Courier New">tempting... Xmas present wish list (how put DNA testing in my Xmas stocking...hmmmm....)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><BR>Larry</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=JYoung6180@aol.com href="mailto:JYoung6180@aol.com">JYoung6180@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=laboswell@rogers.com href="mailto:laboswell@rogers.com">laboswell@rogers.com</A> ; <A title=scott@appletree.com href="mailto:scott@appletree.com">scott@appletree.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=apgpubliclist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</A> ; <A title=apgmembersonlylist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgmembersonlylist@apgen.org">apgmembersonlylist@apgen.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:49 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [APG Public List] [APG Members] Exciting New Dimension for DNAResearch</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>Larry-</DIV> <DIV><BR>There is no pedigree sharing here until people are already MATCHED by the relative finder and agree to share both the basic DNA matches found by 23andme AND their own family history to the extent they know it. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I've been identified as having a matching segment on chromosome 7 with an adoptee trying to learn both his medical AND family history. We obviously haven't found the relationship on this one but we know it is back there -- estimated about 300 years ago. And that tell-tale chromosome got passed down to both of us through the years.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Joan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 10/29/2009 7:44:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, laboswell@rogers.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">One problem on some online genealogical DNA databases is that many unverified pedigrees were submitted, and that has to have an impact. The DNA hits would then take you to possibly an individual who in turn has wrongly identified common ancestors.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">If a person has submitted their DNA but attached it to the the wrong individuals, how could that be identified and corrected.  I think you'd still have to then go and verify that person's ancestral research before drawing any conclusions?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Or am misinterpreting the risk here?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Larry</FONT></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>