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Males inherit their y-chromosomes along with the family name. Presumably, I should have essentially the same y-chromosome as Etienne Mallet, the Huguenot who came to Virginia in 1700.

Women can track their maternal lineage via studies of mitochondrial DNA (mitochondria are inherited from our mothers).

To determine the y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA markers, one gets a kit, uses a tongue blade to scrape a few cells from inside the cheek, and places it in the preservative and mails it off (with the fee). Painless (except to the pocketbook - coupla hundred, if I remember).

In theory the company is supposed to notify you when another person with the same set of markers joins the study, and you can choose whether to be put in contact with them.

I keep hoping some of my fifth cousins in Grimes County Texas or Mallet Town Arkansas will join, so we can prove the lineage we have established from the paper trail.......

Do a Google for Bob Mallett's DNA Surname Study, and you can get more infor from his website.

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