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From: Holly Carter Dunlap Georgia <>
Subject: Re: [CARTER-DNA] web re-design suggestions
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 17:41:31 -0400
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It shouldn't be tricky at all. It should be very straight forward. You should enter the most distant known name from the direct paternal line of the man who gave the DNA sample. That's all. That's for the Y-DNA test. If the mtDNA test wasn't done then the Maternal ancestor can be left blank. If the mtDNA test was done then you want to enter the most distant known name along the direct maternal line of the man who gave the DNA sample.


I see several Kits on the "cookie cutter" chart that have surnames other than Carter. I wonder if these are cases where they know there was a name change and that their biological line is Carter? Or did they just not understand what information should be entered where? Or did they not understand what a Y-DNA Project was and "Joined" Carter in error?




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> To:
> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 16:29:16 -0500
> Subject: Re: [CARTER-DNA] web re-design suggestions
>
> This was a little 'tricky' for our Carter line. Because we had a donor (a
> Carter cousin), and he does not do genealogy and is not interested in it,
> and did not want his name listed, we wanted my hubby to be listed. But
> when we had hubby listed (He is a Wells...his mother and uncle were the
> Carters), the information that came up was 'Wells' not 'Carter'. So I had
> to change his father's information from Wells to Carter. Now both his
> mother and his father have the same information because his mother really
> was the Carter, but in order to get 'Bailey Carter' to show up on the
> charts, we had to make Carter his father's line also. Not happy about it,
> but I guess that is the way it will have to be. Kathy Wells.
> ------------------------------------
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Jane Carter
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:23 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [CARTER-DNA] web re-design suggestions
>
> This is getting to be fun! I am going to log into my page and follow
> Holly's instructions if I have time tonight and get my husband's
> grandfather's info entered.
> Jane
> Carter Surname Y-DNA Project
> www.carter-cousins.org
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