[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Free search on ancestry.com this w/e for military records

Fri Nov 11 13:25:59 PST 2011

FYI - Free search on ancestry.com all this w/e for military records. I
think I may have finally located my Grandfather's WWI German military
records. Good luck!

Rachael Patterson

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:00 PM, <
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> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 15:23:29 -0500
> From: Otto <otto at schienke.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] 23andMe DNA testing
> To: gswilson19 at aol.com
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> On Nov 8, 2011, at 1:15 PM, gswilson19 at aol.com wrote:
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> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > There was a discussion a few weeks back about 23andMe having a special.
>  Several people said they had their DNA testing done through them and had
> the results on the website.  I have my results back and would like to see
> if I could compare with any others on the group.  I am female and I guess
> we can only compare the MtDNA?   Not sure how all this works.
> >
> > Gail
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> Afternoon Gail,
> You had a one  million SNP marker test including ALL 23 of your
> chromosomes.
> It INCLUDES your mitochondrial DNA to establish your maternal haplogroup
> lineage.
>
> A female does NOT possess a Y chromosome to establish the male side
> lineage of her father.
> FEMALE: X/X
>   MALE: X/Y
> The Y-haplogroup is all that is missing, similar to every test out there.
> Test a father or one of his brothers or any of the sons to establish the
> Y-haplogroup.
>
> YOU DO have all the remainder of the code information screened out in the
> test.
>
> Contact me privately and I will walk you through use of the 23andMe site
> via E-letter so you can maximize the benefits of testing.
> I will compare with you on a BASIC LEVEL (genealogy) for a beginning. What
> is your PROFILE NAME?
> .
> . . .   Otto
>         " The Zen moment..." wk. of January 01, 2011-
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>                                "Everything . . .  isasis"
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:51:34 -0800
> From: Beatrix Hughes <beatrix.hughes at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] 23 and me testing
> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
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> I have a question regarding a woman taking this dna test. If my paternal
> grandparents were cousins (their fathers were brothers) does that help me
> to get any information regarding the paternal line?
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 15:50:06 -0700
> From: Vince Tilroe <vtilroe at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] 23andMe DNA testing
> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
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> Hi Gail,
>
> You can find me as "zurgleblatz" at 23andMe.
>
> mt-DNA is passed down from mother to child, but only females transmit it to
> their offspring.
>
> Y-DNA is only passed from father to son.
>
> The other 22 pairs of chomosomes are called "autosomes", which are
> transmitted to both females and males, but each pair of chromosomes
> undergoes recombination during each meiosis (occurring in the production of
> egg and sperm cells).  The X-chromosome is a bit different in that females
> inherit one from each parent (and will recombine when they produce their
> own egg cells), but males receive their single copy from their mother.
>
> 23andMe's Relative Finder tool uses all 22 pairs of autosomes and the
> X-chromosome(s).  There is a bit of a caveat, in that the process of
> recombination diminishes the percentage of autosomal DNA inherited from an
> ancestor, i.e. on average, 50% comes from each parent, 25% from each
> grandparent, 12.5% from each great-grandparent, 6.25% from each 2nd
> great-grandparent, and so on.  Thus two siblings will share 50% on average,
> a nephew/niece and aunt/uncle will share about 25%, first cousins will
> share about 12.5%, and so on.  Thus where more than 10 generations (meiotic
> events) exist between any two people (i.e. their shared DNA is a miniscule
> fraction of a percent), the certainty of the degree of a possible genetic
> relationship can get fairly dodgy and circumstantial.
>
> Please see http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Relative_Finder for more information.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Vince Tilroe
>
>
> Hi,
> >
> > There was a discussion a few weeks back about 23andMe having a special.
> >  Several people said they had their DNA testing done through them and had
> > the results on the website.  I have my results back and would like to see
> > if I could compare with any others on the group.  I am female and I guess
> > we can only compare the MtDNA?   Not sure how all this works.
> >
> > Gail
>
>
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