Michael seniors first wife was Margaret Cosward. About the Ailstock DNA project. There are only four participants. 3 are descendants of Absalom. Two are E1b1a haplotypes and one is I2b1. The other a Hails family member seems not to be related at all… E1b1a is an African haplotype and I2b1 is an eastern European haplotype.. One of the most common haplotypes in Native Americans is R1b1. Which is also a European Haplotype.. The sampling size of the Ailstock DNA project is to small to draw any conclusions about anything..
Y-Chromosome Analysis for Native American Markers
Males inherit a close copy of their Y-chromosome from their fathers. Females do not have a Y-chromosome. So males could also be tested for ÒNative American markersÓ on their Y-chromosome, but the analysis has similar limitations as testing mtDNA. Here again, the test only traces one line of ancestry, and misses most of the subjects’ ancestry because the vast majority of the ancestors are invisible to the test. If a man has 15 Native American great-great-grandparents, but his father’s father’s father’s father was non-Indian, that person will not appear to be Native American under this test. So, almost 94% of that person’s genetic inheritance may be from Native Americans, but under this test he may be identified as “non-Indian”.Å And, like mtDNA analysis using the purely maternal line, using Y-chromosome analysis to determine Native American ancestry ignores a greatly increasing percentage of a person’s ancestry as you go more generations into the past with the analysis.
John
