I do mean to brag about this match. This man, I'll call him Mike, lives within 20 miles from my family's origin in England, or the first known place I can find as far back as 1715 or so. It is not an exact match (within 5 markers) but close enough to be considered a "match." However, and this is where the rub comes in, he does not know who his paternal grandfather was. His "nan," his grandmother, was not married to the father of her child, Mike's father. He only took the 67-marker YDNA test to see what would happen. Mike found me through FTDNA, and now I am helping him by guiding him to vital and church records in his area.
I started with the 37-marker, and we matched there. Mike persuaded me to get an upgrade to the 67-marker test, and we matched there.
You can now get both the 37-marker YDNA and the mtDNA test kits at half-price of $119 until June 30, 2009. So hurry now and click on this link and join our group for the discount and order your kits.
http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=SantaBarbaraCounty.
Dorothy O.
