Re: Estimating No. of Progenitor Ancestors for a Given Surname
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In reply to:
Estimating No. of Progenitor Ancestors for a Given Surname
Joanne Baker 9/04/06
Interesting question -- but one that isn't easily answered. Your participants are probably not a random sample of the Baker universe, since some of them undoubtedly expected to match each other on the basis of their paper genealogy. As your project grows, you can expect to find more novel lines as well as more "random" matches between people who didn't know of each other. You might be interested in some comments from the Brown project coordinator -- a name that is even more common than Baker!
http://brownsociety.org/browndna/dna-brown-status.htmhttp://brownsociety.org/browndna/dna-brown-status.htm
Ann Turner
co-author (with Megan Smolenyak) of "Trace Your Roots with DNA"