Sorry, I replied to the wrong question.  --Sally

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From: "Sally Phillips" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Question About Guardians and Age


> DNA testing can provide information that leads to more information that
> allows some reasonable assumptions.
>
> My husband's family has a surname paper trail back to 1693.  He had a DNA
> test, mainly to help the Family Tree DNA Surname Project families we had
> been working with.  Lo and behold, my thoroughly Phillips husband tested 
> as
> a Fitzhugh!
>
> I went to my local Virginia library, pulled a copy of "William Fitzhugh 
> the
> Immigrant" off the shelf, turned to the index, and discovered that my
> husband's purported gggggg-grandfather was William Fitzhugh's sea captain,
> carrying his tobacco to England and returning with various goods.  The 
> book
> went on to say that Fitzhugh was known for socializing with his sea 
> captains
> and their families!
>
> So it doesn't take much of a leap to think that William Fitzhugh 
> socialized
> just a little too closely with the wife of his sea captain.
>
> This is family history we would never have known without DNA testing and
> adds a human element to a pretty dry story.
>
> Sally Phillips
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