I am confident that there is unlikely to be any shared DNA in the
ancestors of the CARROLLs and the GELLERTs, due to the fact that both branches were
relatively recent US immigrants, from different places, so that it is unlikely
that these families had unknown intermarriages in the genealogical time period. Proceeding
from that assumption, therefore, segments can be clearly assigned to one side
of the family or the other.
My mother Mary's DNA as well as that of all my full siblings has
been tested. Joe Carroll, her brother, has also been tested, as had
Jim Gillert*, their cousin. Mary and
Joe's DNA is from either their mother's [the GELLERT's) or their father's [the
CARROLL's] side of the family (their sister Pat died in 2002 and her DNA is not
available). Segments which match Jim and also Mary or Joe are GELLERT
segments and can be excluded from
the CARROLL family.
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