Sunday, June 1, 2008

Don (Wilbur) Albright DNA results

Results are in on Don (Wilbur) Albright 37 marker test and it is a perfect match 37 on 37.
This is what familytreeDNA says on a 37 marker test
37/37 Your perfect match means you share a common male ancestor with a person who shares your surname (or variant). Your relatedness is extremely close with the common ancestor predicted, 50% of the time, in 5 generations or less and with a 90% probability within 16 generations. Very few people achieve this close level of a match. All confidence levels are well within the time frame that surnames were adopted in Western Europe.

My guess would be that Don (Wilbur) Albright's ancestor Jacob Albright born abt 1770 is a first cousin to my ancestor Jacob Albright the gunsmith born abt 1770 also. That would put are common ancestor at about the 8th generation. My question is why do a 67 marker test for Don (Wilbur) Albright? Don't I have enough evidence with the common place of origin and now the perfect 37 marker match. I am having one other individual do the test that was also related to the same York County bunch from Switzerland.
My thinking is to see how the testing goes for Kenny Albright, descendent of Felix Albright b-1734 in Zurich, Switzerland and died in York Co. Pa in 1780.