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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 2607013, member: 73473&quot;]You are correct in your math.</p><p>However, William the Norman Knight is my direct male ancestor. His Y chromosome, what makes a person a male, only comes from him and his Norman and Danish male ancestors. Every male in my father&#039;s side of the family: uncles, male cousins, me, my father, grandfather, great grandfather etc etc etc has his Y chromosome and has passed it on to their son. If I have a son then I will pass my genes including my Y chromosome to him, he will get his X chromosome from his mother though. This is a bit different than &quot;indirect&quot; ancestors who do contribute a snippet of DNA to me/you/everyone else, but don&#039;t determine the sex of modern people.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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