The following table shows the 10 results for each of our donors. Along the top are shown the markers numbered 1 to 10, and also the scientific name for each marker. The Oxford Ancestors' Interpretations are given at the bottom of the table

Interpretation

1	The Y-Line signatures for Donald, John and Christopher are identical, indicating that they have a recent Common Paternal Ancestor (CPA).
2	Richard's Y-Line signature only differs from Donald, John and Christopher's at one marker (DYS391), showing that he clearly shares with them a CPA.
3	The CPA that Richard shares with Donald, John and Christopher probably lived more recently than the CPA shared by Donald, John and Christopher, alone. (see query below)
4	Donald, John, Christopher and Richard's Y-Lines can be gathered into one group (Group A).
5	The signatures for Thomas and Fred differ at only one marker (DYS391), indicating that they share a recent CPA (Group B).
6	The signatures of Group A and Group B differ at two or three markers.
7	Group A and Group B's CPA most probably lived over 1,000 years ago.

The known genealogical summary for each Donor is as follows;

NOTE: ** Originally Richard and Tom were thought to be 13th cousins (but see note 7 above)

Oxford Ancestors Interpretation:

We queried item 3, and received the following explanation:

The reason we said that the CPA that Richard shares with Donald, John and Christopher probably lived more recently is because we made an
assumption (based on the fact that three of the signatures were identical) that the signature for Donald, John and Christopher is the
'"core" signature for the Moxon family and so this could have been passed through many generations and several different branches.
Therefore if this is the case, any mutations away from this core would have been more recent in origin.
However, it would only be possible to be more certain if this was the "core" signature if many more samples were analysed, which is why we used the word "probable".
The alternative argument is that Donald, John and Christopher are very closely related (e.g. brothers) and that the two different branches (one containing the difference which is seen in Richard's signature) originated before any of these individuals was born. In this situation there would be no indication of which was the "core" signature and therefore the most likely explanation would be that the CPA that Richard shares with Donald, John and Christopher probably lived earlier than the CPA shared by Donald, John and Christopher alone.

To The Conclusions