Re: medieval Despenser ancestry
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Re: medieval Despenser ancestry
Sharron Spencer 10/14/10
It is my understanding that female ancestry can be traced using mitochondrial DNA, but that only traces daughter-mother linkages. The easiest way for a female to check ties to specific male ancestral lines would be to enlist involvement of a close male relative thought to be in the same line, such as a brother, uncle, or cousin, and check their Y-Chromosome DNA.