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Sorenson compiling huge DNA database

A well-written article which explains in enough detail what some of us amateur family DNA researchers were wondering about Sorenson and the database. My husband recently sent in samples and a pedigree, but I wanted to know more about it. It was also useful to see how some of the other testing businesses and genetic projects are linked.

A very well-balanced account of the history of the pursuit of genomic genealogy over the past decade or so, and of James Sorenson's major role in that pursuit. I think it's great that SMGF has been actively testing individuals in what might be called ethnic or geographic "genetic backwaters". Some of these backwaters may disperse over the next few decades due to increased migration and intermarriage, making it more difficult to identify relatively more "original" populations.

Does the DNA have to be from male and same name as the family name of generations ago? For example my husband has some Boren and Standlee ancestors from Arkansas and there was a John Standlee and an Onicyphorous Standlee and we'd like to find out if the two Standlee's were father and son and my husband's ancestors and to see how far back the DNA would take him to find his ancestors. But his name is not Boren or Standlee but Van Lente (and they were Dutch and came over just before the Civil War to Holland, Michigan. But we would like to check further back to this Bandy/Standlee/Boren line.

Onicyphorous was the son of John Standlee. To the best of our research immigrated to the US in 1745. You can find them close to one another in KY, TN, MO, IL and finally in AR (cnsus)where there are many Standlees