Joyce, Thanks Joyce. IF the DNA is the clue, anyone who finds the parents of their know ancstor such as John may well be the common ancestor of everyone in the Group 5 DNA group. It may well be John Couch of Jamestown or the father of some other know Couch ancestors of those in the Group 5 DNA. The fact that several DNA group 5 members took the 25 marker DNA test and had almost identical DNA scores. The science of DNA suggests (I have been told) that those with a matching 25 marker test have a common ancestor within 7 generations. Thus, if we can identify the common ancestor of those taking the 25 marker test then we would all know our common ancestor. I am excited that we may really be close. Perhaps it is the Captain John Couch of Jamestown, VA from your line. Help me explore this possibility fully. Robert H. Couch ---------- >From: JoyceHouseReeve@webtv.net (Joyce H. Reeves) >To: COUCH-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [COUCH] John Couch, Mary Boone, Elizabeth Campbell of VA/NC/KY >Date: Thu, Oct 2, 2003, 9:01 AM > >Hi Bob, > How I wish I could tell you who was the father of our John of Perry Co >KY. To date, we haven't found where John and Mary were in 1774, other >than "Commonwealth of VA" -- and that could have been anywhere in todays >VA, WV, KY, parts of OH, IN -- a huge territory, but we think primarily >in the western counties of [now] VA, and also the part which became WV >in 1863. > We know John was associated closely with a Joseph Couch, sometimes >seen as Crouch. Not knowing his age, Joseph could have been father, or >brother, of John. There was a Joseph on an 1816 Clay Co KY tax list who >was never found there again. Martin's son, Joseph, b c1805, would not >have been old enough to be on a tax list at age 11. If the older >Joseph didn't move on to parts unknown, he may have died there. That's >why I've questioned the Joseph in Knox Co TN as being the same Joseph of >Ashe Co NC. >Most of the time, where we've found John, there is Joseph somewhere >nearby. Ron's DNA matching with so many others is the key -- but where >do we find the lock?? We are searching for, in addition to John and >Joseph, an older Austin. He never seemed to have put down roots any >place -- wandered from state to state to state. Sam can tell you more >about Austin than I can, but there's really little known about him. >There may have been another brother named David - he is also seen as >Crouch/Couch. Some of these men were written as Crouch on official >records, but their signature was Couch. > Botetourte, Fincastle, Montgomery and Grayson Counties, VA are good >places to start -- but where they were before, I have no clue. > Sorry, this is the best I can do at present. > Joyce > > >==== COUCH Mailing List ==== >Please note that this mailing list is operated by rootsweb and administered >by a volunteer. It is not connected with the CouchGenWeb. > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >