In a message dated 6/16/02 12:41:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, paulstickley@wycol.com writes: > Charles: What is the current status of the project? Number of > participants? Specimen source (buccal smear?)? Time lapse between sample & > report to individual? Project report due date? Brief findings overview? > Comments? > The BEAL SURNAME DNA PROJECT is still going and the number of participants is also continuing to grow. We have results back on 25 participants. Please go to: http://www.hometown.aol/bealsurnamedna/results.html I am also using what I call a thumbnail migration pattern to assist visitors & participants and to encourage participation in the project at: www.hometown.aol/bealsurnamedna/migration.html The samples taken are buccal smears and the time lapse for participant wait was as long as 12 weeks, but is now down to about 6 weeks. We are very satisfied with our results from: Family Tree, Ltd. at: http://www.familytreedna.com and hope to see their University of Arizona data base grow! Of course, I would like to see all the data bases in the world combined into a master data base where matches could be made to benefit all the existing and future DNA projects, the longer the providers of DNA testing wait to do this, the more difficult it will make it to do! Look at the history of standardization of other things in this world! If you look at the results particularly for the BEALL surname, we have provided extended information on ancestry, identified earliest early immigrants to the US for participants, established relationships for some of the earliest immigrant ancestors. Most of this verifying and enhancing proven recorded ancestry! In the Bell surname ancestry we have proven the relationship of a Canadian branch to a branch in Argentina! In the BEALE/BEAL surname results we have tied together descendants of an earliest immigrant ancestor in York, ME in 1600s for Ohio, California & Canadian BEAL families, already proven by recorded ancestry. We have disproved a common ancestry in the last twenty generations for a MELLICK family in the US & UK. All of this with a limited amount of participation from the thousands of potential participants in the surnames we know exist from census figures. We are not supported adequately by family associations, who are apparently afraid of possible legal consequences if they advocate DNA testing! We are answering some of the objectives set out on my home page at: www.hometown.aol/bealsurname/index.html and hope to benefit from our increasing concentration on obtaining participants from Scotland, Ireland, England, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, South America with our participants in the US. All are countries involved in the process of tying the DNA Y-chromosome haplotypes together to identify common ancestors and connect families of the same surname together. We have not changed our year old goal of keeping the project going for at least three years. We have even higher hopes of more startling results, as the project continues to grow and the numbers of participants increase. Can I interest you in starting or participating in a STICKLEY surname DNA study? Do you have unresolved family relationships or have hit "Brick Walls" in researching your ancestry and wonder where your family originated? Please contact me and we will work on trying to answer these questions. Regards, Charles E. Beal Project Coordinator of the BEAL SURNAME DNA PROJECT, member NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, BEALS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MAYFLOWER SOCIETY, OLD YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, BEALL and BELL FAMILY ASSOCIATIONS. Protected by daily updates of Norton Virus Protection software.