Kudos!  Thank you Jim, for expressing my sentiments exactly!

Shirley



On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Jim Harlow <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> ladies and gentlemen
>
> I've been following this thread and remain chagrined.  Unless you perform
> 67 allele testing,
> and certain SNP tests, you will not know if you are, or are not, part of
> the family with which
> you harbor a history.
>
> As an example - my 67 allele test shows a close
> match between my family and the Bowles family.
> However, after contacting an expert geneticist we discovered that we had a
> common ancestor,in
> Iberian Peninsula, roughly 800 years ago.  To be
> clear, we had EXACT DNA matches at 12,25, and 37
> Allele testing.
>
> Now, in light of the foregoing, do not rule out
> the possibility of a common ancestor many centuries earlier or an adoption
> - adoptions
> without paperwork happened all the time -
> especially with sea-going families who possessed
> an infant.  If you find a complete mismatch in
> the haplotypes of Y-DNA then do not rule out the
> notion of an adoption or a common ancestor within
> the last 1,000 yearas.  Many adults have the
> strength of character not to tell their adopted
> kids that they were adopted as infants - and they
> stuck to it.
>
> Don't be so quick to jettison a rich heritage just
> because an emerging scientific discipline provides
> a fact that is contrary to your years of genealogical research.  The
> discipline of DNA
> research and analysis is still young; there is
> much that we do not yet know.
>
> Jim
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