what test is best to get 6 or 7 generations back? mother or father

Question

I can get back 4, but want to confirm 5-6 generations of ancestors. Surname is Wilson, so obvious issue with a common name.

 

Want to know sugestions fo rDNA test. Autozomal?

 

thanks, James Wilson, member

Answer 1

Hello James,  If you want to learn about your Wilson direct paternal line then you should order the Y-DNA37 test from Family Tree DNA.

Then find your most distant known male relative with the Wilson surname and have him take another Y-DNA37 test.

If you both match each other sufficently, then that confirms your direct paternal lines back to your most recent direct paternal line Wilson ancestor.  You can add the Y-DNA Confirmed Tempate http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:YDNA_Match to the profiles of the portions of the direct paternal lines which are confirmed back to that most recent Wilson ancestor.

Answer 2

We're about ten years into a family Y-DNA project with a total of 20 individual profiles stretched over three generations, and the results indicate our Y haplotype has not varied more than a marker or two over more than ten generations - possibly as much as twenty generations. Our collection of profiles represent individuals who descend from three different Reber immigrants to the US in the years 1738, 1880, and 1912. It follows that the common ancestor to all three lived in Germany sometime before the year 1700, possibly long before.

Answer 3

If you want to go back 5-6 generations for both sides of family - then you've just described FTDNA's FAMILY FINDER test.  It uses the autosomals and bridges the GENDER GAP.  Excellent matching, and other tools.  Also, you can upload the "raw datta files" from your Family Finder test to GedMatch.com which is a free site that it loaded with additional tools to articulate the autosomals into more new data.