Emilie Garcia wrote:

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Yes, like Marge and Santos, I lament the fact that I will miss
out on the Y-DNA testing, since my father died in 1966, and my
grandfather in 1941.  My father had no brothers, and I had no
brothers.  His male Olague first cousins are gone also.  My only hope
is to try to convince a son of a first cousin of my father's who bears
the Olague surname.

Ask the Mom to talk to the son. Try and convince her of its importance.
Maybe come at it from the perspective that it will be a way to always
remember their dad.



how about get up a picture of the dad and make up a real nice frame
with a 5 x 7 picture of the dad in one 1/4 of the frame. in the next
1/4 of the frame a 8 x 11 tree chart tracing the father back however
far you have him. in one other 1/4 of the frame a simple "genealogy
report" and then leave the last 1/4 blank  which will "one day" include
the Dad's DNA results once the son agrees to submit them for testing.



Give the picture and partially complete frame to the mom and ask her to
talk to the son. When they see all your hard work how could the son say
no. Well he might say no to the $100 part. Any way you can take up a
collection if this is the real issue?



just some thoughts from one who was also call a "tarugo" from time to
time, menso too, oh and some choice other words when I "really really"
got mom mad,



joseph

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  So far, he has been less than willing to even me! et me.  He
simply stated that he knows nothing about family histo
ry and family trees (I tried to get him interested by telling him the
family history and that I have a family tree going back to the
1700's).  He changed his number once, I got his new number from his
mother, and he has not returned my calls.  I will not only have to pay
for the test, but bribe him big time to get his cooperation.  Maybe
even that won't work.  I am very disappointed that this testing came
after my father passed on, but then I wasn't interested in genealogy
like I am now. 

 

Santos, I will try to see what Mr. Bennet Greenspan has to say. 
I trust him and his Family Tree DNA project, since it was started for
Jews who do not play "Gato por Oso" about something so important to
their culture.  This is their life, who they are, who they have been
for thousands of years. The Family Tree DNA tests are very reasonably
priced at $100.00 for a 12 Marker Y DNA test.  (Tests with more markers
can always ! be done later from the same samples submitted).  Years ago
a university lab in Oregon was charging $3,000 for such tests.

 

 

 

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