Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] > Don't you have any male Davenport cousins? You could sponsor them to be tested. My father's brother and sister married in their forties and had no children. My father did have 5 Uncles (Davenport) one of which was somewhat known since he had written some music which still shows up in some catalogs (London). Therefore, following that thought it is more than likely that the 5 Uncles had children some of whom were boys. Tracing all that is not exactly impossible, but very VERY hard to do. (G) Most of all, it is time-consuming which at this time, I don't have a lot of due to my husband's recent surgery. Still, I'll do my best to get into it. Its been explained to me here at least 3 times, but I still can't see why "my blood' ain't good enough. <vbg> Sorry, just thickheaded - now that would be coming from my German mother. On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 20:06, Winifred Auch wrote: > Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] > >The Rev. John Davenport was perhaps the best known of the several > Davenports > that arrived in America in the 1600s. His line is well researched and dates > > back at least to Orme de Auceporte around 1086 in England. Over the years > there > has much speculation that all or most of these Davenports were in some way > related. > > Now we have more ammunition. > > The sample from kit # 9415 (Rev. John) has an exact match with the > Albemarle > Davenport line. It also has a 24/25 match with the Thomas of Dorchester > line.<<<<<<<<<< > > Comment: I have a Rev. Thomas Davenport and his two sons, Rev. John > Davenport and Rev. Samuel Davenport. (1700s) in my ancestry - all born in > England.. > > (Un)fortunately I'm not a man so I can't be checked out genetically. <g> > > Winn ><

Well, I'll try again. Humans have two sex chromosomes. In the female, there are two Xs. The male has one X and one Y. No normal female has a Y chromosome, therefore if you are a normal female, you won't have any Y chromosome at all to be analyzed. (There are some females who have a Y, they can look very much like a normal female (e.g. Jamie Lee Curtis), but they are always sterile). The DNA tests are being done on the Y chromosome. Anyone who is a direct lineal male to male Davenport descendant will carry the Y of the original progenitor. The small Y is easy to analyze and can tell us if two males come from the same male progenitor. So the only hope for you to be placed into any of these lines is for you to find a male cousin named Davenport and have him tested. I had to do that also, since my grandmother was the Devenport in my line, so my Y DNA wouldn't be from a Devenport, but from a Banks. This doesn't mean you don't have any DNA from your Davenport ancestors. Of course, you do. But because the Y is the only autosome that doesn't get mixed over the generations, it is the only one that can be used for these genetic tests. Mitochondrial DNA can also be used for genealogy testing. This is inherited almost exclusively from the mother. However, there are only a relatively few types of mitochondrial DNA, especially in Europe, so it makes it less useful. Both males and females can be used for this testing. On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 13:39, Winifred Auch wrote: > Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] > > > Don't you have any male Davenport cousins? You could sponsor them to be > tested. > > My father's brother and sister married in their forties and had no > children. > > My father did have 5 Uncles (Davenport) one of which was somewhat known > since he had written some music which still shows up in some catalogs > (London). > Therefore, following that thought it is more than likely that the 5 Uncles > had children some of whom were boys. > Tracing all that is not exactly impossible, but very VERY hard to do. > (G) Most of all, it is time-consuming which at this time, I don't have a > lot of due to my husband's recent surgery. > Still, I'll do my best to get into it. > > Its been explained to me here at least 3 times, but I still can't see why > "my blood' ain't good enough. <vbg> Sorry, just thickheaded - now > that would be coming from my German mother. > > > On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 20:06, Winifred Auch wrote: > > Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] > > >The Rev. John Davenport was perhaps the best known of the several > > Davenports > > that arrived in America in the 1600s. His line is well researched and > dates > > > > back at least to Orme de Auceporte around 1086 in England. Over the years > > there > > has much speculation that all or most of these Davenports were in some > way > > related. > > > > Now we have more ammunition. > > > > The sample from kit # 9415 (Rev. John) has an exact match with the > > Albemarle > > Davenport line. It also has a 24/25 match with the Thomas of Dorchester > > line.<<<<<<<<<< > > > > Comment: I have a Rev. Thomas Davenport and his two sons, Rev. John > > Davenport and Rev. Samuel Davenport. (1700s) in my ancestry - all born > in > > England.. > > > > (Un)fortunately I'm not a man so I can't be checked out genetically. > <g> > > > > Winn > >< > > > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > For instructions on unsubscribing or searching the list archives visit: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nvjack/davnport/group.htm > > ============================== > 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