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Bill,
With utmost respect, I am wanting to ask some questions and also comments on this forum since your email address is hidden.
I have been reading about the Polk YDNA saga since I feel my husband's McKee surname will have the same mistakes if there are ever enough male McKee willing to test. My husband's family traveled along the same path as the Ezekiel Polk era folks from Mecklenburg Co NC to middle TN and on into Hardeman Co TN in the mid-1820's. The entire recorded lineage of a number of old lines will collapse along with this POLK lineage as soon as what happened is figured out. Many of those lineages have not been claimed by direct descendants but thru marriages claimed and often impossible to document but based on "best evidence".
The actual McKee input is scarce. There are vacant records that are missing when one follows up on legal information recorded in one place and time and never accounted for again. No doubt official records have been altered and destroyed long before extraction to the internet. People wanting to be descended from the president or some important person from the past have played havoc with the real past. Heck history is changing every day along with your statement about dna results.
To date, there are few McKee males having done their YDNA. Many folks are still skeptical of YDNA without having done any study about it. The YDNA groups really don't receive good publicity about the success of their projects.
I sense in your emails here a skepticism of the results of the YDNA program. I have no problem with that but I would like to ask you to comment on your reasons for this feeling. A person of your influence can make a difference in someone testing or not testing.
Your final comment in the message I am posting to makes me want to know where to look for changes that I should expect in my husband's results based on your comment. Please explain.
Thanks, Linda McKee
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