How do others handle this aspect of a study when the study is not confined to one region and/or country. I've been drawing conclusions off of my database because it collects from everywhere since (other than the most recent voter/phone indexes) I can't find data collections for the different locales that are in a similar timeframe. At this point, I do not have enough DNA evidence to say conclusively that the different locales do not overlap population wise and therefore can be treated entirely separately. Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com

With the Blake study the DNA results from UK participants can be fixed to particular areas prior to 1800 but the movement of peoples in the 1800s/1900s/2000s will make placement in particular Blake areas (which is pretty much all of the British Isles) impossible (i.e. just because you now live there doesn't mean that you are going to match a known line in that area). In Hampshire I have two known results which are actually quite similar but not exactly the same (although one matches a known ancient Irish Blake line not Galway Blake which is a known group). The two Hampshire results (includes my line and the second with a match with an Irish line) are rather interesting because they are both ancient to the British Isles and hence took on the surname Blake at some time in the past. In the case of my line I am back into the mid 1400s and there were Blakes at Andover back into the early 1300s (linking this group with my line in the 1400s is an ambition of mine). And discovering why they took on the surname Blake is another strong interest. I am suspecting marriage into the le Blak family from Rouen, Normandy (Richard le Blak requested and received permission to attend market in England in 1274) because this family was just north of Andover in Berkshire in this early time period. Elizabeth (Blake) Kipp BA PLCGS Website: http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/elizabethmain.htm Blog: http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/ Guild of One Name Studies #4600 (Blake, Pincombe) The Surname Society #1004 (Bedard, Dumoulin, Gregoire, Prevost, Blake, Pincombe, Knight, Rawlings, Cheatle, Butt, Buller, Taylor, Gray, Farmer, Lywood, Rew, Routledge, Welch, Coleman, Lambden, Arnold, Peck, Rowcliffe, Siderfin, Cobb, Beard) On 2014-12-01 8:39 AM, Marie Byatt via wrote: > How do others handle this aspect of a study when the study is not confined to one region and/or country. I've been drawing conclusions off of my database because it collects from everywhere since (other than the most recent voter/phone indexes) I can't find data collections for the different locales that are in a similar timeframe. At this point, I do not have enough DNA evidence to say conclusively that the different locales do not overlap population wise and therefore can be treated entirely separately. > > > Marie (GOONS 5318) > > > Bringing the world together one surname at a time. > 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com > 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com > Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ > 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >