Sunday, April 27, 2008

More New DNA testing

I have found a descendant of Christian Albright b-abt 1774 and Christina Brodbeck. Christian is the son of Felix Albrecht b-abt 1734 and Anna Maria Seigrist. I had help locating a male descendant from Cynthia Turk and Sheryl Yocom, who are descendants of Christian, they don't know each other, I am grateful for emails and genealogy posts as I was in touch with both of them years ago and when DNA testing for genealogy became a reality, I realized these connections could prove extremely valuable. The male descendant who lives in the west can give further proof of the Zürich, Switzerland Albrecht's (Albrights). The test date is projected to be done in about 6 weeks, usually it isn't that long but I did have one that they had to redo and it did take a little longer.
So now I await 2 Albright DNA tests. Don (Wilbur) Albright and Kenny Albright.
It is amazing that there was only 13 Albright doing the test, 4 are ones I have involvement with. I had told one of my old wrestlers whose last name was Williams that he ought to do it, there are 525 Williams doing the testing, so it would seem he would have a greater chance for success.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

DNA Testing

The 25 marker DNA results came back on Don (Wilbur) Albright. We still have a perfect 25 on 25 match. So ordered a 37 marker test. (from familyDNA site) Your perfect 25/25 match means you share a common male ancestor with a person who shares your surname (or variant). These two facts demonstrate your relatedness.
Explanation from ancestry.com on DNA.
For example, a 12 for 12 match tells you that there is a 90 percent probability that your common ancestor lived within the last 48 generations and a 50 percent probability that he lived within the last 15 generations. A 25 for 25 match narrows these time frames, revealing a 90 percent probability that your common ancestor lived within the last 20 generations and a 50 percent probability that he lived within the last seven generations. Additional markers clearly go a long way to bringing test results into genealogically relevant time spans!

My guess is that I am related within about 8 or 9 generations of Don (Wilbur) Albright.

Needless to say I am putting the Zurich, Switzerland Albrechts into my database for future postings!