Hi List, Wasn't there a Baughman DNA project? What ever happened to it? Anyone know? And how does one access it if there is one? Phyllis

Yes there is an ongoing project. J. Ross Baughman started the project 3 or 4 years ago and the there have been nearly 30 participants in both the U.S. and Europe. It is a y-chromosome project, which means participants must be male and have the Bachman/Baughman name (or strongly suspect that they got the Bachman y-chromosome through a patrilineal ancestor otherwise). The y-chromosome is passed down more or less unchanged from father to son, so tends to follow surnames. Unfortunately females do not have y-chromosomes so cannot directly participate, except through a father, brother or patrilateral cousin. I've been trying to put together a web-page summarizing the results so far, but am way behind. You can compare the first 20 or so participants by going to http://www.stanford.edu/~philr/Bachman/BACHMAN.htm There is no explanation there, just a bunch of numbers for the different markers that were tested, but you can email me with further questions. J. Ross is writing a book that will include the information gathered so far, but I can do a rough summary. About half the participants have been found to match each other indicating a common ancestor. This cluster has its origin in the Old Castle area of Richterswil, Canton Zurich, Switzerland and included my ancestor (Johan Georg Bachman, b. 1686) and Ross's ancestor Henry Baughman (b. 1711), as well as several Bachmanns who still live in Switzerland. A second group comes from the same area, but has a different y-chromosome. We don't know if this indicates a long-ago adoption or illegitimacy (where the y-chromosome would have come from a non-Bachman) or a separate origin of the Bachman name that just happened to end up in the same area. A third group includes descendants in Kentucky and Pennsylvania as well as one Swiss participant born in Canton Aargau. There are also more than a half dozen participants who don't match anyone else so far. You can email me or J. Ross (at j_ross_baughman@hotmail.com) for further information. I can supply further information, including how to sign up or to sponsor a participant. Phil At 04:44 PM 11/27/2004, you wrote: >Hi List, >Wasn't there a Baughman DNA project? What ever happened to it? Anyone know? >And how does one access it if there is one? >Phyllis > > >==== BAUGHMAN Mailing List ==== > ----------------- > This is the BAUGHMAN Discussion List > You can check the Rootsweb Archives at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=BAUGHMAN > or http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BAUGHMAN > for past messages posted to this list > ----------------- > >============================== >New! OneWorldTree. Building Trees. Connecting Families. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13970/rd.ashx