There's a company that does the DNA tests for free but the results
take a lot of time to be posted on their site, about a year.

The name is Sorensons Molecular Genealogy Foundation:
http://smgf.org/

Or maybe you and other interested relatives can pitch in for a test of
one of your boy cousins?



--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Margarita Vallazza <TeaCozyGran@k...>
wrote:
> My father and his brothers are dead and I don't have any brothers and 
> forget my boy cousins...son tan tacaños!!!! they'll never pay to get 
> the DNA results.  Marge
> On Jun 21, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Alberto Duarte wrote:
> 
> > Members and cousins:
> >  It would be very interesting if we all had our dna
> >  results, but I believe we would be very much the same
> >  since we share the same Mexican ancestors and they
> >  also came from the same region of Mexico, Spain,
> >  Portugal.
> >
> >  Any comments?
> >
> >  Alberto.
> >
> >  --- Margarita Vallazza <TeaCozyGran@k...> wrote:
> >
> >  > If we can only go through the female line, then I'll
> >  > have to go through
> >  > another site.  My mother was from Scotland, and her
> >  > mother was from
> >  > Ireland.:(  Marge
> >  > On Jun 21, 2005, at 4:10 PM, Erlinda Castanon-Long
> >  > wrote:
> >  >
> >  > > I would love to see how others did thier dna
> >  > tests. I feel cheated as
> >  > >  a female that I can only do the mtdna
> >  > (female)line. I ordered mine
> >  > >  through Gary Felix's site.  My husband ordered
> >  > his from another even
> >  > >  though it's the same lab.. he does not have
> >  > ancestors from Mexico.  My
> >  > >  test kit arrived in 10 days, my husbands took 6
> >  > weeks to arrive.  I'm
> >  > >  waiting for my results now and expect them by the
> >  > end of June.  I also
> >  > >  like how the Mexico site will hold our results
> >  > for 25 years and will
> >  > >  notify us if there is a match with someone.
> >  > >
> >  > >  I don't fully understand how they analize the
> >  > results but expect to
> >  > >  find African, Espanol and Indio blood lines if my
> >  > research records are
> >  > >  correct.  I'm hoping they break it down in
> >  > percentages, Joseph, do you
> >  > >  know how it's done?
> >  > >
> >  > >  Linda Castanon-Long
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > >
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