Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) of Y-DNA

[Alan H]

What DNA testing is extremely good at is determining if the hypothetical pair, Joe and Bill are closely related, or not.... or you and Monique in Paris. Determining how closely related two specific individuals are, is eminently doable by standard DNA testing.

[WoodyGA]

What DNA testing is extremely good at is determining if the hypothetical pair, Joe and Bill are closely related, or not.... or you and Monique in Paris. Determining how closely related two specific individuals are, is eminently doable by standard DNA testing.

I did the Family Tree DNA Y-DNA67 test, and am awaiting the result. I've also joined a surname project for my family name. I hope that it will at very least give me some hits that my family is indeed Scottish, and maybe related to someone else in the surname project. My oldest paternal ancestor just appears in South Carolina, with no records to link him elsewhere or conclusively to anyone. I'm hoping this might at least point me in the right direction.

--Woody

[McElmurry]

I did the Family Tree DNA Y-DNA67 test, and am awaiting the result. I've also joined a surname project for my family name. I hope that it will at very least give me some hits that my family is indeed Scottish, and maybe related to someone else in the surname project. My oldest paternal ancestor just appears in South Carolina, with no records to link him elsewhere or conclusively to anyone. I'm hoping this might at least point me in the right direction.

--Woody

Hopefully you will get a good prediction from your STR (short tandem repeat) testing. You can also poke around in the DNA results from the surname project and see if you recognize any of the paternal ancestor names in the results chart.