[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Anyone on the list had any DNA testing done

[Kristen]

Where have you gone to have this testing done?


Kristen Feifert Clark


-----Original Message-----
From: Sigrid Pohl Perry <perry1121 at aol.com>
To: gswilson19 at aol.com
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Sent: Sat, 2 May 2009 6:20 pm
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Anyone on the list had any DNA testing done



Gail,

My Pohl family Y-dna is R1b at 42 markers, and my mtdna haplogroup is H. 
The closest matches for either put us solidly in northern Europe which 
includes Germany, the Scandinavian countries and the British Isles. I 
expected that as both haplogroups are very common in this region. It 
would be interesting to see if a group like SGGEE had closer matches 
because of intermarriage within the same "tribe" in the late 19th and 
early 20th centuries.

DNA for genealogy can be helpful. My husband joined the Perry surname 
project; his y-dna is E3b1a and this means he can eliminate all those 
families with that name who have a different haplogroup. He has a few 
fairly close matches to people whose ancestors came from the same 
colonial region in the US, but no paper trail to them. But the "control" 
on what this means rests on the fact that his second cousin twice 
removed has identical markers, matched at every point at all 37 markers; 
their common ancestor lived in the early 19th century. So relating to 
someone with only 35/37 could mean too many years back to trace.

Sigrid Pohl Perry

gswilson19 at aol.com wrote:
> I'm curious whether anyone on this list has had DNA testing done on themselves 
or their relatives.? And if so, what Haplo group they found their ancestors to 
be from.
>
> Gail
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