My test results do not match any others, does that mean I am not a Caperton?
There is always a possibility that you could get disappointing test results. Samples that vary by three or more markers from the main group may do so for a number of reasons. One possibility is that they represent distinct lines either older or younger than the currently observed line. Another is that has been a non-paternal event at an unknown past time. There are several possibilities, a non-paternal event in addition to a pregnancy outside of a marriage. For example, a child may be adopted and given the Caperton name; a man may take the Caperton name when he marries a Caperton daughter; a Caperton man may marry a pregnant woman whose husband has died; a couple where the wife is a Caperton may decide to give their children the Caperton name for various reasons; clerical error in recording administrative data may assign a Caperton name to a person and so on. It should be stressed that adoptions were quite common in every age ie. parents died by disease and a relative took in the child
