How Do I Ask a Perfect Stranger for Their DNA?
How Do I Ask a Perfect Stranger for Their DNA? Tuesday January 15, 2008#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)I have a dilemma. I’m female. Well, actually it’s my female blood that is the issue. The CRISP Family DNA Project has been calling my name for years, but my CRISP ancestor was female – my great grandmother Pattie Lucy Crisp, to be exact. Because the Y-DNA being tested for the CRISP project is passed down only from father to son, I have to go back to her father – Mack Marion CRISP, to obtain the necessary DNA. He died back in 1931, so that’s a bit of a problem… Some of you may remember the story that appeared in The New York Times last April describing the great lengths that some genealogists will go to to obtain DNA for their family r
