Re: DNA - Can you enlighten?

Terry wrote:
Just trying to wade through this DNA thing, so lets say there is a direct ancestor of say Somerled, lets say he goes to England early in history and lived with the Saxons and married into them, so would DNA prove his decent from Somerled or maybe not, assuming we had DNA from Somerled? Also even if his DNA would not prove decent from SOmerled would it show an origin of what ever group of people Somerled truly was descended from?

If the descent was in the male line, the Y chromosome would pass virtually unchanged down the line, ans would still mark the descendant as a member of the same male kindred to which Somerled belonged (which could be known from other documented male-line descents). If not in the male line, then DNA analysis would be virtually useless in determining such relationships, unless something extremely unusual happened.

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