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Topic: Walser (Thoenen?(Teune)) DNA (Read 7226 times)
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Ed Teune
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Yes, I have to agree with Herma.
We have to find some very open minded people to do this with and make sure that no one is dissapointed if the results do not turn out the way we wish. Personally, I don't think I could ask any close cousins of mine in case we uncovered a family scandal via DNA testing.
Ed
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Dale Bricker
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Certainly, the reaction to unexpected results is always a concern. I heard that, relative to the Swiss participants in the Guggisberg DNA project, a rather suprising percentage of U.S. "descendents" of the Guggisberg line were found to not in fact be genetic descendents after all, due to what are termed "false paternal events." This could be for a perfectly innocent reason that occurred a few hundred years ago: the level of mortality was high enough then that a child orphaned by his parents' terminal illness would often be adopted by neighbors, who would give the child their surname. The knowledge within the family of this adoption would be lost after a few generations, with the consequence......a completely different genetic "signature" of the direct descendents of this adoptee.....only being uncovered as the result of a DNA test today.
I must confess, that as I await the DNA test results of a Bricker who "on paper" is my sixth cousin, I am a little nervous at the possibility that our respective genetic "signatures" may be totally different. I would not feel shame to know that there was a false paternal event in my own line, if that were shown to be the case, as I am not responsible for whatever may have happened before I was born. I'd just be a little disappointed that my genealogical efforts as a "Bricker" had to come to such an abrupt end.
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Dale
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Dale Bricker
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I just wanted to add that, for any DNA project, confidentiality is key. Every participant in the Bricker project (eight of us so far) will be given a coded identification to identify him online when everyone's results are posted. For example, BR01, BR02, BR03, etc. It is solely the decision of each participant whether or not to share his results with other Brickers. If he doesn't even want his results posted, I will not post them. One prospective participant wanted me to give him the names of the existing participants, so he could determine if any of his close cousins were participanting, thus making his test redundent. I explained I couldn't disclose that information, but he decided to become a project participant anyway.
Dale
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Ed Teune
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Very good points, Dale. It helps to hear about your ongoing project so that we can know how to procede.
Can that I assume that most of your participants were younger, more open-minded individuals who would not necessarily be dissapointed by the results? That would be my target participant group.
I guess my point was simply to use caution, as Herma said.
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Dale Bricker
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> Can that I assume that most of your participants were
> younger, more open-minded individuals who would not
> necessarily be dissapointed by the results? That would
> be my target participant group.
Not necessarily younger. First, it's older folks who frequently tend to look to the past; I gather genealogy is relatively popular among those in their sixties, often retirees. Second, at times even the price of the least expensive level of test, at $100, is apparently prohibitive for younger people, although the cost is equal to how many dinners out, or cartons of cigarettes? One of the Bricker project participants is, I estimate from what his niece has said to me, in his seventies, and he is said to look forward to receiving his results with some excitement, while another participant seems to be in his mid-twenties. Some women, quite interested in their paternal line, have pushed a brother to send in his DNA sample for analysis, but have been rebuffed.
So, I've found so far that it's hard to generalize as to who will participate and who will not.
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Dale
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Dale Bricker
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I thought I would announce that the first round of Bricker DNA results have now been posted to our Project website. Teunes with a curiosity about the integration of genealogy and genetics may not be as interested in these results themselves as much as the way in which data of this type is presented in order to influence other Brickers to also participate in the DNA project. Sincerely, Dale Bricker http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bricker/first_project_results.htm |
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