My maiden name is Armstrong. I descend from James Ramsey ARMSTRONG (1787 PA - 1874 KY) whose family Bible I own. I have a letter written to him by his brother Isaac when both lived in KY. He posted bond for his sister Mary when she was married in KY. They were the children of Rebecca RAMSEY who married an Armstrong but I've never discovered who their father was. I've talked to a first cousin who is an Armstrong and asked him if he'd be willing to join the DNA study if I'd get the information about it and he agreed. I'd appreciate a contact and information. Thank you, Cathie

Hello Cathie, Aside from my role as Administrator of the ARMSTRONG Y-DNA study, I also function as the administrator of the ARMSTRONG-List at Rootsweb. Bob Armstrong at <bobsarmstrong@sky.com> and Dave Strong at <dbsandmd@allstream.net> are Co-Admin on the ARMSTRONG Y-DNA study. Dave is also administrator of the Strong Y-DNA Study and the Donegal Bay and Fermanagh Families Geographic Y-DNA study. He has considerable experience in the field of using Y-DNA. Together, we are all learning about this exciting new approach to genealogical research; we welcome your participation! We are also closely associated with the ELLIOT-BORDER REIVER Y-DNA study administered by Jim Elliott. Jim has done a tremendous amount of work in regards to the Scottish Border Surnames. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gallgaedhil/haplo_armstrongs.htm Dave Strong is co-administrator of both the Armstrong and Elliott & Border Reiver DNA Studies and has provided the following partial index to the overall project: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/reiver_families.htm A visit to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/armstrong.htm will provide comparisons and evaluations with links to other information which we hope you will find useful. if you are a new participant in the DNA studies, the first part of your DNA study participation will involve getting the test sample submitted, and then comes the hard part... awaiting the results from the lab ! When your results are posted, FTDNA will send you (and all the Administrators) an email announcing the results, and directing you to your personal web page which they have set up for you. You will want to explore the various pages tabbed to your personal page. One of the first things you'll want to do is upload your results from your personal "Y-DNA Matches" page to the Y-SEARCH database. (FTDNA will give you instructions, but if you have trouble don't hesitate to ask any of us for assistance). Additionally, if you subsequently receive mtDNA results as well, you should go to your "mtDNA Matches" page and follow basically the same procedure to upload your results to MitoSearch. Note that in both cases you will be asked to supply a password. We suggest you make the password something which will be easy to remember. The webpage set up for you by FTDNA also has an option for you to send in your GEDCOM so that other researchers can see how they might tie in, and then make contact with you. If you find it difficult we will be glad to help. " To join the Armstrong DNA study go to http://www.familytreedna.com/public/armstrong in the upper left hand corner is the link to join, fill in the appropriate information.. decide if you want to be invoiced and pay by check or you can pay by credit card. Most people will select the 12 marker test to get started.. However, most matches at the 12 marker level are not very useful for genealogical purposes as it indicates a possible genetic match 600 to 800 yrs ago. So then people will upgrade to a 25 marker level to narrow down the time frame for any matches. So we recommend you start with the 25 marker to save time. However, the choice is yours. Sincerely, John Armstrong Wasilla, Alaska hargreaves@citcom.net wrote: > My maiden name is Armstrong. I descend from James Ramsey ARMSTRONG > (1787 PA - 1874 KY) whose family Bible I own. I have a letter > written to him by his brother Isaac when both lived in KY. He posted > bond for his sister Mary when she was married in KY. They were the > children of Rebecca RAMSEY who married an Armstrong but I've never > discovered who their father was. > > I've talked to a first cousin who is an Armstrong and asked him if > he'd be willing to join the DNA study if I'd get the information > about it and he agreed. I'd appreciate a contact and information. > > Thank you, > Cathie > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARMSTRONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

You have our DNA results telling us we don't belong anywhere except to 3 people named Reams and a Renshaw and another named Von Eppinhoven which sounds a darn sight more uppity than eitherRenshaw or REAMs so I'll say we belong to The Von Eppinhoven family who were originally Armstrongs but, like me, preferred the fancy name. This name can be said, even written, with the nose in the air and the little finger extended. Hey, I looked them up and they really ARE royalty! I guess Dennis must have died as I can't get in touch with him. I nearly died, myself, but managed to escape from the darn Nursing Home. No place for an Armstrong-er--Von Eppinhoven. A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. Groucho Marx Marilynn ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Armstrong" <ana@mtaonline.net> To: <armstrong@rootsweb.com> Cc: "Bob Armstrong" <bobsarmstrong@sky.com>; "David B. Strong" <dbsandmd@allstream.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] DNA Study > Hello Cathie, > > Aside from my role as Administrator of the ARMSTRONG Y-DNA study, I > also function as the administrator of the ARMSTRONG-List at Rootsweb. > Bob Armstrong at <bobsarmstrong@sky.com> and Dave Strong at > <dbsandmd@allstream.net> are Co-Admin on the ARMSTRONG Y-DNA study. Dave > is also administrator of the Strong Y-DNA Study and the Donegal Bay and > Fermanagh Families Geographic Y-DNA study. He has considerable > experience in the field of using Y-DNA. Together, we are all learning > about this exciting new approach to genealogical research; we welcome > your participation! > > We are also closely associated with the ELLIOT-BORDER REIVER Y-DNA study > administered by Jim Elliott. Jim has done a tremendous amount of work > in regards to the Scottish Border Surnames. > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gallgaedhil/haplo_armstrongs.htm > > > Dave Strong is co-administrator of both the Armstrong and Elliott & > Border Reiver DNA Studies and has provided the following partial index > to the overall project: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/reiver_families.htm > > A visit to > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/armstrong.htm > will provide comparisons and evaluations with links to other > information which we hope you will find useful. > > if you are a new participant in the DNA studies, the first part of > your DNA study participation will involve getting the test sample > submitted, and then comes the hard part... awaiting the results from the > lab ! When your results are posted, FTDNA will send you (and all the > Administrators) an email announcing the results, and directing you to > your personal web page which they have set up for you. You will want > to explore the various pages tabbed to your personal page. > > One of the first things you'll want to do is upload your results from > your personal "Y-DNA Matches" page to the Y-SEARCH database. (FTDNA > will give you instructions, but if you have trouble don't hesitate to > ask any of us for assistance). Additionally, if you subsequently > receive mtDNA results as well, you should go to your "mtDNA Matches" > page and follow basically the same procedure to upload your results to > MitoSearch. Note that in both cases you will be asked to supply a > password. We suggest you make the password something which will be > easy to remember. > > The webpage set up for you by FTDNA also has an option for you to send > in your GEDCOM so that other researchers can see how they might tie in, > and then make contact with you. If you find it difficult we will be > glad to help. " > > To join the Armstrong DNA study go to > http://www.familytreedna.com/public/armstrong > in the upper left hand corner is the link to join, fill in the > appropriate information.. decide if you want to be invoiced and pay by > check or you can pay by credit card. Most people will select the 12 > marker test to get started.. However, most matches at the 12 marker > level are not very useful for genealogical purposes as it indicates a > possible genetic match 600 to 800 yrs ago. So then people will upgrade > to a 25 marker level to narrow down the time frame for any matches. So > we recommend you start with the 25 marker to save time. However, the > choice is yours. > > > Sincerely, > John Armstrong > Wasilla, Alaska > > > hargreaves@citcom.net wrote: > >> My maiden name is Armstrong. I descend from James Ramsey ARMSTRONG >> (1787 PA - 1874 KY) whose family Bible I own. I have a letter >> written to him by his brother Isaac when both lived in KY. He posted >> bond for his sister Mary when she was married in KY. They were the >> children of Rebecca RAMSEY who married an Armstrong but I've never >> discovered who their father was. >> >> I've talked to a first cousin who is an Armstrong and asked him if >> he'd be willing to join the DNA study if I'd get the information >> about it and he agreed. I'd appreciate a contact and information. >> >> Thank you, >> Cathie >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ARMSTRONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARMSTRONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 6124 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len