As I said I am researching my ancestor of surname Carrel who may have arrived in North America about the time of the Revolutionary War. I don't care if he was a Hessian mercenary or not. I am looking for anyone of surname Carrel or Correll who came to North America about the time of the Revolutionary War, but not from Britian. I have learned that there were Hessians with that surname who stayed here. If any male descendant of such a Carrel is alive today - I invite him to join the Carroll surname family Y-DNA project now under way. Of course there is no such thing as Hessian "blood" and I never suggested there was. There is however such a thing as a Carrel Y-DNA haplotype, which has nothing to do with any gene or medical condition, Hessian or otherwise. Eric Carroll-DNA List Admin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nelda Percival" <nelda_percival@hotmail.com> To: <AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [HESSIAN] German / Hessian blood > Barry, > If it is about Hessians it belongs on the list. But I wish Eric or George > would explain in Laymans terms but in detail... > Nelda > > Pax et bonum! > Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ > http://doodleartgraphics.com > > > > ==== AMREV-HESSIANS Mailing List ==== > The Source HETRINA has been discussed more often than anything > else, you find the explanations by checking the key word archive. > You can find it by typing in "26 feb 1999" and look for HETRINA. > Or check the Threaded Archives for February 1999 - Hetrina publication. > You can search the archives for a specific message or browse them, going from one message to another. > To search: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=AMREV-HESSIANS > To browse: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/AMREV-HESSIANS-L > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

Hi, Well, the subject has been discussed and as a research tool for Hessians it is not viable... I am not saying its not a viable tool for genealogy research of a particular surname. It is. But that needs to be discussed off list. thank you List Manager in this case! Pax et bonum! Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ http://doodleartgraphics.com

Generally speaking, the DNA may not be a viable topic for the Hessian list. However, I am a descendant of Gottlieb Westfall. He had a brother Heinrich who also stayed here. Another Westfall researcher is having a problem making the connection to Gottlieb Westfall. Other Westfall researchers seem to have tried to pursuade her that she is connected to another Westfall family, that of Jurian Westfall. This family is of no connection based on my 50 years of research. We have very little on Heinrich Westfall. So down the line a possible Westfall DNA project might be useful for Westfall researchers to perhaps learn if they are connected to the Hessian brothers or not. So I would not totally disregard the usefulness of this as a Hessian topic. Perhaps this is not a line with which you are familiar. John Merz is, as his wife is connected to these 2 Hessians in her line in Germany. Of course, John is retired from the list. Pat Brandon of the list is trying to make her connection to one of these Hessian brothers as her family tradition is that the first Westfall here for her family was a Hessian. I am sure you can see the implications for her. I am not suggesting by any means that DNA become a major topic on the list. It is useful to have it in the archives. What I am suggesting is that it might have its rewards some time in the future in regards to the brothers, Gottlieb and Heinrich Westfall who were Hessians who remained. Peggy [Lyte] Tyrrell At 12:08 AM 3/3/05 -0800, Nelda Percival wrote: >Hi, >Well, the subject has been discussed and as a research tool for Hessians >it is not viable... I am not saying its not a viable tool for genealogy >research of a particular surname. It is. But that needs to be discussed >off list. > > >thank you >List Manager in this case! > >Pax et bonum! >Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ >http://doodleartgraphics.com > > > >==== AMREV-HESSIANS Mailing List ==== >Taglines are supposed to give you instructions on how a mail list works. >Please read them, and remove them and part of the original message >(keeping enough of message for a reminder) before sending out an answer. >One last word - Messages should not exceed what you can type on two letter >pages, if you want to say more, make it two messages - Part one and Part two. >`````````````` >To unsubscribe: send an email to AMREV-HESSIANS-L-request@rootsweb.com >and write one single word unsubscribe in subject line and text field. >No other words or explanations or it won't work. > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx