DNA tests rule out 2 as Smith descendants

Scientific advances prove no genetic link

Published: Saturday, Nov. 10 2007 12:13 a.m. MST

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After more than a century of speculation about whether LDS Church founder Joseph Smith had children with any of his plural wives, a local geneticist said he recently has crossed two such purported descendants off the list of potential candidates.

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Anonymous

So let me see if I have grasped the Mormon view on this.

DNA science is believed in and supported when you are trying to trace Joseph Smith's descendants, but it is hopelessly flawed when it shows that American Indians were NOT (Hebrew) More..

11:03 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007
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SL Cabbie

The article is flawed in that it omits descriptions of the source DNA for Buell and Hancock. If we are offered, say a single g-g-grandson of Oiver Buell as the source of the Y-chromosome used for comparison, then the only thing proven is that More..

9:48 p.m. Nov. 10, 2007
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Anonymous

Joseph Smith said he wasn't a polygamist. Emma said he wasn't a polygamist. His sons said he wasn't a polygamist. Maybe they were telling the truth. Now there are five more reasons to believe him:
Mosiah Hancock
Oliver Buell
Moroni More..

5:38 a.m. Nov. 11, 2007
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