hannover-l - Nachricht 2007-10 00275

[PJ V <netkitty(a)hotmail.com>]

Gale,

I think it's a hit of miss kind of thing that someone does just on the off 
chance that you'd find a link to someone else researching the same family 
line.            I don't think it helps unless both you and your matches 
have researched back far enough to be able to connect the ancestors and see 
if anything new is learned.

In my case, I found some others who had German ancestors around the same 
area that my ancestors came from but I also found some matches with people 
who's known ancestors were all traced back to Britain.     They didn't know 
of any ancestors in Germany.

Best wishes, Pam




From:  <gale(a)bosche.info>
Reply-To:  Hannover-L <hannover-l(a)genealogy.net>
To:  Hannover-L <hannover-l(a)genealogy.net>
Subject:  Re: [HN] DNA (even for those men who married women who inherited 
farms)
Date:  Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:45:55 -0400
> Hi Rotraud and Bonita and others
>
> I have some trouble understanding what the benefits of DNA
> are in finding ancestors.  Their DNA is not available.
>
> Yes of course DNA will help you to discover someone who
> came from the same ancestors 5 or 6 generations (or more)
> ago, but do they know who those ancestors were?
>
> Are you going to search their family tree to see if you
> can get back to find the common ancestor?
>
> I think someone has already mentioned the exponential way
> in which the number of ancestors go up each generation.
>
> 2 4 8 16 32 64 128  I did not take time to confirm my
> numbers, but use thes numbers as an example. I do not
> believe that I would have time to run down 128 family
> trees to find out the name of an ancestor 7 generations
> ago.  The odds are that you would have to look at 64 of
> them before you made a hit.  Now if they all were in a
> data base, it would be simple.  I doubt that that will
> happen unless DNA tests become mandatory.  There are all
> kinds of theories about how DNA data bases can be misused
> for various negative purposes and many people do not want
> that to happen.
>
> Gale
>
>
>
> On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:53:02 +0200
>   Rotraud Ilisch <post(a)rotraud-ilisch.de> wrote:
> > Hi Bonita,
> > of course I have learned to track down the changing
> >surnames - just the
> > way in other cases they mothers surnames will always
> >change. I my region
> > I am aware, that for example Gerd Benningmeyer married
> >and was called
> > Vossschulte, his son Gerd Vosschulte married and became
> > Gerd Weller,
> > his son Bernd Weller later got the Acholk farm and was
> >probably called
> > Ackolk... I don't think, any DNA-test would help to
> >figure out these
> > things, even church books are not enough and you need to
> >read the farm
> > records too.
> > I only was in doubt, if the US genealogists are aware of
> >these names
> > changings, because even in Germany beginners or people
> >living in the
> > south, often don't know you can't always just follow a
> >family name.
> >
> >>Hello Rotraud:
> >>
> >>Actually, it might help you pin down what the true
> >>ancestor's surname was,
> >>thus being able to prove a connection to a specific
> >>surname.
> >>
> >>If the matches for DNA results come back with 100% match
> >>to several people
> >>name Mueller, then it would be a good bet that the
> >>original male's surname
> >>was Mueller... Thus opening the possibility of finding
> >>the christening
> >>records for your farmer who married an heiress and who
> >>took her surname.
> >>
> >>Bonita
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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