I may be the only one confused, but when you say "the results were conclusive," what was your conclusion? - B. Clay Shannon From: Jennifer Zinck <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Monday, January 9, 2017 12:15 PM Subject: Re: Twain Relatives I am the genealogist who completed the DNA research for Carkeet's project an= d the results were conclusive. I do several of this type of case each week a= s well as identify parents or grandparents for adoption cases and this case'= s results were one of the most obvious. (The clusters were a genetic genealo= gist's dream.) I didn't do my research based on any tree created by Susan or= David. I created my own tree for Susan utilizing the actual genetic data as= it related to matches and I was able to definitively identify all of her gr= andparents. Although Susan did give me permission to share my conclusions, I= am not inclined to do so, as I don't feel it would help anyone in any way. I= didn't realize there is still discussion about the matter. Kind Regards, Jennifer Zinck Professional Genealogist=20 Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 9, 2017, at 10:46 AM, Shoshana Bailey <[log in to unmask]> w= rote: >=20 > I have never answered Carkeet's conclusions and I'm not now but=3D20 > I will say one thing. He based a lot of his conclusion on the assumption t= ha=3D > t I had put up a family tree and that is how I came up with the Clemens/La= ng=3D > donlinks. Now Barbara is addressing that same issue.=3D20 > I had NOT attached a tree to my DNA for the first several years. The DNA m= at=3D > ches I got with Clemens and Langdon were sent to me organically by Ancestr= y a=3D > nd FTDNA (who, at the time, didn't have trees.) > It was only after getting over 100 matches that I attached a tree.=3D20 > Regards, > Susan Bailey >=20 > Sent from my iPhone >=20 >> On Jan 9, 2017, at 10:26 AM, Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote= :=3D >=20 >> =3D20 >> Hal -- >> =3D20 >> David Carkeet's research on the flawed methodology used to establish DNA >> connections to Clemens via ancestry.com family trees was the game changer= .=3D >=20 >> His essay on his months long research and first hand experiences in worki= n=3D > g >> with the DNA reports is online at: >> =3D20 >> http://www.twainquotes.com/Carkeet/AncestryReport.html >> =3D20 >> In a nutshell, anyone can plug in a false or inaccurate family tree at >> ancestry.com after submitting a DNA test, and the ancestry.com database >> will generate a list of people who are also related to people in the tree= >> one believes is their own tree. Just about anyone can be distantly relat= e=3D > d >> to someone else who ties in to the Clemens family tree in some fashion if= >> the family tree branches are traced back far enough. =3D46rom Carkeet's r= ep=3D > ort: >> =3D20 >> "... 'What you are seeing is the result of endogamy, intermarriage within= a=3D >=20 >> population group. In the year 1700, the population of the United States w= a=3D > s >> approximately 250,000 people.' In other words, it is a small world. Or, >> more to the point, it was a small world, with so few people in the pocket= >> of immigrant history that I share with my matches that if I select a >> specific name from the past (in this case, with my false genealogy, an >> ancestor of Samuel Clemens), some match of mine from among my more than >> 6,000 matches will descend from that ancestor." >> =3D20 >> Barb