Dusty:

Your sister's son doesn't work for your father's yDNA direct male line
test, because your nephew doesn't carry your father's yDNA. You need to
look for the son of your Dad's brother or the son's son's son of your
Dad's paternal grandfather, usually of the same surname as your father
unless an adoption or some other non-paternity event intervened to change
the surname of the direct male line.

Right now I'm looking for 2 direct-male-line descendants of
great-great-grandfather William Henry Smith of Adair County, KY, and
Carroll Co., MO; one candidate from the eldest son of his first marriage
and one candidate from the youngest son of his third marriage. These 2
sons were born about 30 years apart. The surname of the living guys is, of
course, Smith, barring a non-paternity event.

Hope this helps.

--Ida Skarson McCormick, [log in to unmask], Seattle
(Member of the Seattle Genealogical Society DNA Interest Group)
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Dusty wrote 6-10-13:
So for myself - I'd just swab me - but since my brother has died and I
have no livings parents or parental sibs, can my sisters son be used? I'm
guessing no because he descends from my father through his mother (non-x)
and adds in his own fathers dna?

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