From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   On 22/04/2019 00:58, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > That is the thing that DNA is most useful for -- DISproving a   
   > relationship. But the further back you go, the less relable it is   
   > likely to be. You can't go round exhuming old bodies just to discover   
   > whether you are or are not related to them, and how do you know that   
   > the body under the stone is the one whose name is on the stone anyway?   
      
   A negative match can be useful.  We always suspected one person born in   
   the early 19th Century was illegitimate.  Not fairly certain this is   
   true because he no DNA relationship to people descended from his   
   "father" but is related to others through his mother.   
      
   One of the reasons that I did the test was that there are many people   
   with my surname in Cumberland and always wondered whether we are linked   
   to them.  Unfortunately not found any on the various DNA sites.  Most   
   with the name tend to be Americans claiming descent from a 17th Century   
   immigrant to the USA - they never seem to be descended from a humble   
   person who went there in the 19th Century!   
      
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