bonita:
If i understand you.
My Annie seil gave birth to two men My father a Meyer and my Uncle a Meyer. And the only way her father would be traced would been with a son of that man. or a brothere or uncle of his. If I had a way to test my father and his son I would get Meyer results since my father was the Meyer descendent. Nothing else would show up. August Seil never had any sons. [note to self ...Need to find more on that family in germany.]
As for the hole of the Meyer daughters marriage to Koenig and
Stille,Fehring, and Schmoble, they are not traceable at all through dna. The only way I could trace the missing Meyer in Oregon would be if some male Meyer in Oregon checked his.
Looks like I have lots of letters to be writing. Should have sooner. One must still find these people and then check.
Thanks
Yes, ... Annie SEIL married a MEYER. Her sons would both carry the MEYER
Y-chromosome ... and their sons would carry the same and would pass it to
their sons ... ANY OF THEM can be tested for MEYER surname Y-chromosome.
Now, if Annie SIEL had a brother ... and he had sons, and they had SIEL sons
.. then they can be tested for the SIEL Y-Chromosome.
So, you see you can do genetic genealogy on any of the surnames in your
direct line ... you just need to find a biological male from that line, then
follow his male descendants until you find a living male who will agree to
provided a little 'spit'.
As for the MEYER daughters, you would have to trace their daughters down
until you found a living female biologically descended from the MEYER
daughter ... no matter what her surname was .. and it should match Annie
SIEL... and Annie's Mother, and her mother, and so forth.
The best example of DNA testing is Thomas Jefferson and Sally Henning. DNA
Testing has proved 99+ percent that Sally Henning's children are Thomas
Jeffersons. After 250 years of bickering there is now an end to that. BTW
do you all know that Lee Marvin the actor is a direct descendant of Thomas
Jefferson by way of his daughters? Heide
The only thing I would add is that a mother passes her mitochondrial DNA on
to both her sons and daughters. The father's mitochondrial DNA stops with
him. So a woman would have the same mitochondrial DNA as her mother's
siblings, grandmother's siblings etc. on back.
I beg to differ. What has been proved is that they are descendants of
someone with the same Y-DNA. That means it could have been his brother's,
father's, uncle's, cousin's or his. It is not conclusive evidence of
anything other than they are related to him.
I understand, but given the DNA and other evidence, they are 99.-- sure that
he is the father. The other evidence was not quite enough. Added that to
the DNA makes it almost certain. Heide
Actually, Heide, they are not 99% sure about Thomas Jefferson. They actually believe it more likely that his brother was the ancestor - based on the fact that Thomas spent very little time - almost nil - at the farm where Sally was. His brother was there quite often. This from farm records.
How interesting ... that is why I think, genetic genealogy speaking, we must
use the 'descended from a common ancestor of .." rather than stating we are
actually descended from.