Charani, DNA certainly can be "infallible evidence". You've forgotten that it can be exclusionary. In my case, I spent 5 years or more studying the Brittons of Bitton to find a link to my brick wall in the adjacent parish of Kelston. One glance at the first 16 STR markers that I received, and I junked all that work. They were R1b and I was R1a, so we parted company many thousands of years ago.
I was already back to about 1500 in Somerset, so further conventional progress would have to be via heraldry and old documents. That's a bit of a lottery, probabilities and not infallible, so not too different from inclusionary DNA for the "Genealogical Time" domain. DNA did offer, though, a potential means to rigorously test more conventional findings. The Brittons of the Bristol area seem likely to be Bretons, displaced to Brittany in the Dark Ages and returning at 1066. My DNA arrival has been assigned to the same event, but as mercenaries, not real helpful and fairly expensive in testing. Another test, reported just a couple of weeks back, trippled the cost, but found a cousin and illuminated deeper history. It now seems likely that our joint ancestor arrived with the Romans, presumably as an auxiliary. I emailed my new cousin; he, of course, did not reply. You don't always get much for money spent on DNA testing... Adam, My reply to Charani gives a sense of the scope and utility of DNA to genealogy, so is relevant to possible Legacy support of such data. Specific DNA testing questions are better on a DNA list or forum. If you email me off list with whatever you know of your haplogroup and earliest ancestor, I'll try to help. Advice in this area is usually worthless or worse without knowing a lot about your situation and aims. kb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <phoenixantis...@gmail.com> On 16/03/2015 14:19, adam allan wrote: > Was wondering if this testing using DNA is a valuable tool. > Ancestry.com is offering it and wanted some opinions on the > technology, tks. ...DNA is not infallible evidence. Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
