At 11:00 PM 7/21/02 -0600, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 06:11:56 -0400 >From: "Bonner, Gregg" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: ><[email protected]du> >Subject: [BONNER] Bonner DNA Y-Chromosome Project >Content-Type: text/plain > >Dear List, > >I have intention of starting a BONNER Y-Chromosome Genealogy Project. I see >a bunch of what seem to be different lines, but with the feeling that they >are all closely related. > >In particular, I would like to test descendants along the all-male line of >at least the following: [snip] Hi Gregg, I think we have chatted via email about "Bonner DNA" in the past. I would be willing to participate and contribute where I can. Last year I had myself and a suspected long-lost cousin tested to see if the two of us Bonner's were related. We went with FamilyTree DNA, and they found that we were an exact match (share a most recent common ancestor). Through my research of Bonner's I believe that there are at least two distinct 'populations' that use the surname, Bonner. One line has its origins in the Irish Catholic population that is originally from County Donegal, Ireland. Many of them poor and illiterate, left Ireland in the nineteenth century and settled near large northern cities such as Philadelphia. In Philadelphia for example, the vast majority of Bonner's are descendant from Irish Catholics. [This is where my line comes from]. There is at least another population that came from Scotland (including the so called, Scotch-Irish) and/or England. These folks were largely from the Protestant faith. In this latter population my research in the Bonner surname suggests that many of the Protestant Bonner's settled into the southern United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It's my opinion that this Bonner population has no "blood relation" to the Irish Catholic one mentioned above. Of course this is why a Bonner DNA project can be so valuable, to prove or disprove certain assumptions. If you decide to use FamilyTree DNA as the company to do the DNA testing I would be happy to provide my results. Actually, I have the Loci designations so it's probably not critical that you use the same company. Hopefully, more male Bonner's will be tested and we can get to the bottom of the origins of the Bonner surname. Best Regards, Neil Bonner

please remove my email address from your list - there are no Bonners here -----Original Message----- From: Neil Bonner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BONNER] Bonner DNA Y-Chromosome Project At 11:00 PM 7/21/02 -0600, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 06:11:56 -0400 >From: "Bonner, Gregg" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: ><[email protected]du> >Subject: [BONNER] Bonner DNA Y-Chromosome Project >Content-Type: text/plain > >Dear List, > >I have intention of starting a BONNER Y-Chromosome Genealogy Project. I see >a bunch of what seem to be different lines, but with the feeling that they >are all closely related. > >In particular, I would like to test descendants along the all-male line of >at least the following: [snip] Hi Gregg, I think we have chatted via email about "Bonner DNA" in the past. I would be willing to participate and contribute where I can. Last year I had myself and a suspected long-lost cousin tested to see if the two of us Bonner's were related. We went with FamilyTree DNA, and they found that we were an exact match (share a most recent common ancestor). Through my research of Bonner's I believe that there are at least two distinct 'populations' that use the surname, Bonner. One line has its origins in the Irish Catholic population that is originally from County Donegal, Ireland. Many of them poor and illiterate, left Ireland in the nineteenth century and settled near large northern cities such as Philadelphia. In Philadelphia for example, the vast majority of Bonner's are descendant from Irish Catholics. [This is where my line comes from]. There is at least another population that came from Scotland (including the so called, Scotch-Irish) and/or England. These folks were largely from the Protestant faith. In this latter population my research in the Bonner surname suggests that many of the Protestant Bonner's settled into the southern United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It's my opinion that this Bonner population has no "blood relation" to the Irish Catholic one mentioned above. Of course this is why a Bonner DNA project can be so valuable, to prove or disprove certain assumptions. If you decide to use FamilyTree DNA as the company to do the DNA testing I would be happy to provide my results. Actually, I have the Loci designations so it's probably not critical that you use the same company. Hopefully, more male Bonner's will be tested and we can get to the bottom of the origins of the Bonner surname. Best Regards, Neil Bonner