Re: Help me find out the truth
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Help me find out the truth
Latroya Rollins 7/23/09
Hi Latroya,
I ran across your message by accident, but you can use DNA testing to find out the truth.If there is a male line descendent (Isaiah's putative son's son's son's son), you can look the DNA result for this modern day Rollins.It will certainly tell you where the y chromosome came from: Africa or Europe or elsewhere.If you have matches with other Rollinses, that's a good indication that the father was Isaiah Rollins.If it matches Dampiers, that's a good indication that the father was Robert Dampier.You might watch Henry Louis Gates' PBS documentary "AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIVES."I bet you can find it at the library.
If you want to write me about DNA testing, I help people with it all the time.I'm the Richardson-2 administrator at Family Tree-DNA.
Good luck!I hope you find out.Karen