Another exciting update!

I received a Facebook message from one of my Dad's Fox cousins yesterday morning saying that she was willing to test for me!  We're working out the details now, but we should be able to get her test going in the next few weeks, because she is willing to pay for her own test.

This is fantastic news, because Dad's cousins are the only way we're going to be able to discern which of Dad's matches are paternal (Fox) and which are maternal grandfather (Perry).  Dad's maternal grandmother's matches are easy to spot, because they're Norwegian!  :)  The other three lines are mostly English, though there IS a Dutch connection way back on one of the branches on the Fox side.

An exciting update!

I talked to my first cousin, twice removed, tonight.  He's agreed to test for me, for both autosomal and YDNA.  This will help us find Peter Klassen's family.  It probably won't bring us to a 100% conclusion, but it will certainly help us in determining which Klassen group we belong to.  There are three, apparently.

We're running the autosomal test first.  This will help us determine which of Grandma's matches are Klassen matches, and which are definitely Petkau matches.  There will probably be some matches we can't make any conclusions about, simply because they don't match Ralph in the right places.

So... onward and upward!  In about a month and a half, I should have enough saved up to order the YDNA test.  :)

Peter Klassen's current family tree