Good afternoon
My male cousin would like to take aDNA test. As said our mothers were identical twins. I know who our maternal Grandmother is after many years of research, ie paper trail, and luckily finding our Grandmother had a child 5 years before the twins (different father) , and I found 2 cousins from that child's marriage who confirmed the story of twins.
We have photo's now of our Grandmother, and I have a good paper trail for her, so I am able to trace that line back to our Grt grandparents and slightly further so have a good idea of where they came from, London, Middlesex, Buckinghamshire and Ireland. My cousins and I will show differences in DNA, as my father was from Scotland, and his was from Suffolk.
We know nothing about our Mother's Father, as on the twins BC it is blank for father. I haven't been able to find any evidence, although with the 1921 census the twins are in a different workhouse to the one they were born in , in London. I researched the workhouse where they were born at LMA but they had little records for that period 1920, but this new workhouse has more records for that period, so looks like a trip to LMA again.
My cousins Grandson recently had a DNA test which showed German/Jewish.
My cousin has asked me to help with the DNA. I know very little about testing, even though I have tried researching about it, but I think I will be guiding him towards one or 2 of the well known sites. I presume it will be an autosomal test, but if we wanted to go further later which test would be more specific for our own mothers father. I do know about the y-dna & M-dna, but still a little confused.
Thank you for reading, and if anyone could help explaining that would be appreciated.
