Great idea but how do they check for Daniel's DNA?
Hi Velcro...
Absolutely appreciate the financial side. It's not cheap by any means. Roughly A$165.
The way I think of the male DNA test is that Daniel had a mobile phone, which he got from his father. Daniel's phone number was 37 digits long. He gave each of his sons an identical mobile phone with the same 37 digit phone number. They in turn gave each of their sons an identical mobile phone with the identical 37 digit phone number. And this family tradition continued right up to the modern day. And is still carried on today.
Over the last few years people have begun compiling phone directories
but not by surname. What's important is the 37 digit phone number. Everyone with the same phone number is grouped together,
no matter their surname. They are grouped together because the common 37 digit phone number means that within the last seven or eight generations everyone in the group had a single common male ancestor.
Those in the group who have already worked out their family trees can compare them with each other and hopefully find this common ancestor. If they do it means that
everyone in the group, whether or not they have worked out their family tree, is directly descended from this one person.
Finally you will have two indisputable pieces of information about your Daniel. It doesn't matter if he changed his name, age, birth date, birth place, parent's names, sibling's names etc. You have his mobile phone number
and you know the person to whom the phone originally belonged.
Unfortunately Daniel's not here to answer his phone. But there's an increasing number of people still alive who have the same phone number and are more than willing to help out.
Or at least that's the theory as I mis-understand it
Regards
Beg
