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The bar set for this project is a high one: to test at least two patrilineal line male descendants of every ROSENBERG / ROSENBURG family in the world! That way, and from then on, any ROSENBERG / ROSENBURG male can be Y-DNA tested and immediately know where his origin lies.
I say "at least" two descendants because if two are tested and they don't match, it means at least one of them has an NPE. And I say "at least" one has an NPE because I once had a family where the first three men tested did not match each other. Only when the fourth man was tested did one of them get a match — and, yes, the paper genealogy of all four was well documented. It is for that reason, by the way, that every man interested in proving his biological origin needs to be Y-DNA tested. It doesn't matter how correct and documented your paper genealogy is, you cannot know whether or not you have an NPE unless you are Y-DNA tested. The NPE rate in my projects is running about 10%.
If you are a ROSENBERG / ROSENBURG who has been tested, and you find you have no match, the way to increase the odds of getting one is to encourage other ROSENBERG / ROSENBURG males to be tested, especially ones whose claim the same progenitor you do.
I say "at least" two descendants because if two are tested and they don't match, it means at least one of them has an NPE. And I say "at least" one has an NPE because I once had a family where the first three men tested did not match each other. Only when the fourth man was tested did one of them get a match — and, yes, the paper genealogy of all four was well documented. It is for that reason, by the way, that every man interested in proving his biological origin needs to be Y-DNA tested. It doesn't matter how correct and documented your paper genealogy is, you cannot know whether or not you have an NPE unless you are Y-DNA tested. The NPE rate in my projects is running about 10%.
If you are a ROSENBERG / ROSENBURG who has been tested, and you find you have no match, the way to increase the odds of getting one is to encourage other ROSENBERG / ROSENBURG males to be tested, especially ones whose claim the same progenitor you do.