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Subject: Re: [DNA] MTDNA Testing Identifies 400 Year - 12 GenerationRelationship
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:47:40 EDT


In a message dated 6/22/2007 10:07:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

> So here were two new cousins introduced only through the results of DNA
> testing. They possessed the exact same mitochondrial DNA signature passed down
> to them from their common maternal ancestor, Françoise Garnier Grenier, 400
> years before.

I certainly enjoyed hearing about this success story. It reminded me of
another success story from the French DNA website a year or so ago -- not about a
random match, though, but about the research journey fueled by the unexpected
finding of a Native American haplogroup:

http://www.frenchdna.org/findingannemarie.html

Ann Turner


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