In a message dated 8/4/04 7:31:28 AM, jclarke@rose.net writes: > I am a traditionalist.   I still believe in BC and AD > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: "John R. Clarke" <jclarke@rose.net> > Reply-To: GAJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > To: GAJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [GAJEFFER] DNA Tests at FamilyTreeDna > Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:30:35 -0400 > > Thank you John Clarke for the superb job that you are doing letting all of us genealogy researches know how to go about finding out who belongs to who and how to contact the Family Tree DNA Project. I know that it is going to take the mystery out of so much of the Watkins line that I have been researching for so many years. God Bless, Shirley Watkins Sanders

Shirley, I have a WATKINS loosely tied to some of my bunch over there. Maybe you know then. A Nancy WATKINS married William Allen TARVER (b. 1805) in Jefferson County, GA in 1852. She was born ABT 1830. TARVER was somewhat of what my mother would call a cad. He married Lucretia DANIEL and had four kids by her. After her death in 1849 he dumped their children on her brothers, Robert W. DANIEL (1809-1865) and James L. DANIEL (1814-1857). He then married this WATKINS girl in 1852 but left his kids with RWD and JLD and had two more children by this WATKINS girl. My GGF, RWD actually married him and this WATKINS girl but I would not have done it, had I been him. A man has to have some kind of principles, right? I track them to Washington County, GA in 1860 but loose them afterwards. Someone once told me they went to Decatur, MS but I do not know. Some of his descendants by Lucretia still live in the Jefferson County, GA area. Jimmy TARVER is one of my cousins and Jimmy lives in Wadley. John R. Clarke Thomasville, GA ----- Original Message ----- From: <Ssand10749@aol.com> To: <GAJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 12:31 AM Subject: Re: [GAJEFFER] DNA Tests at FamilyTreeDna In a message dated 8/4/04 7:31:28 AM, jclarke@rose.net writes: > I am a traditionalist. I still believe in BC and AD > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: "John R. Clarke" <jclarke@rose.net> > Reply-To: GAJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > To: GAJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [GAJEFFER] DNA Tests at FamilyTreeDna > Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:30:35 -0400 > > Thank you John Clarke for the superb job that you are doing letting all of us genealogy researches know how to go about finding out who belongs to who and how to contact the Family Tree DNA Project. I know that it is going to take the mystery out of so much of the Watkins line that I have been researching for so many years. God Bless, Shirley Watkins Sanders