Hi all: There's a very interesting article by one of the world's leading geneticists online right now. Ugo Perego headed up the micro-genealogy project at BYU in the 1990's. In that project they paid people to submit DNA samples and pedigree charts in order to begin to build a database of human DNA for current and future research. Read Ugo Perego's article beginning at http://www.mormontimes.com/studies_doctrine/research_discoveries/?id=10756 and continuing on in three parts. The fourth part will come out this week sometime. He talks about how American Indian DNA and mtDNA analysis,in general, cannot show the whole picture. He thoroughly examines the uses and limitations of mtDNA and tells about what can happen to the DNA of founders of cultures over time and over many generations. He talks about three principles for looking at DNA and says, "These principles apply whether you are talking about people in Indiana or Iceland." If you want to be truly informed on the subject of what kind of DNA we are seeing today for Indian people and what it can tell us about our ancestry, read Ugo's article. It's very informative. Kathie ----- Original Message ----- From: TalliyaSoutheast@aol.com To: creek-southeast@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 2:47 PM Subject: Re: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Locations of Creek and Cherokee territoryinGeorgia In a message dated 10/12/2009 1:19:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, gonegolfingsc@bellsouth.net writes: What is your take on there being a central "mother tribe or nation" that most or all other tribes in North America came out of.....pre and post Ice Age? Well, I am not an anthropologist, but I do know that the MtDNA of Creeks is not like that of most of the other tribes in the Eastern United States. Where did all that different DNA come from if everybody came from the same tribe? Richard T. Notes on the Creek Indians http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm Early Creek History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/ Migration Legend of the Creek Indians http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CREEK-SOUTHEAST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message