Who was George's mother?
Can we find the identity of George's mother by analysing our 'X' DNA results? The 'X' chromosome has special inheritance properties and it is through matches on this chromosome that have given us hints on the identity of Georges mother. Both my mother and her sister Margaret inherited an identical 'X' chromosome to their father Edward Arthur Roberts, from his mother, their paternal grandmother - Abigail Courtney b1871. It was handed down 'in tact' from their father, as men do not recombine the 'X' when they pass it on to their daughters. Given the properties of the 'X' chromosome Georges mother should be able to be identified from one of these groups provided Abigail's recombined ‘X’ chromosome contained both paternal and maternal segments. So far, our analysis shows the following break up for Abigail's 'X' chromosome and by using other matching results for segments on chromosomes 1-22, it has been concluded tha