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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