Hello everyone, I want to take a vote on whether we want DNA discussed here. I have been getting mail on both sides, so I think that the only fair thing to do is to ask you to please write to me privately and tell me what you think about it, and whether you want to see it disussed here. After all, this is YOUR list, not mine, and I want to make the majority happy. I will see what the results are and let you know. I will wait till Tuesday evening and then tally up those for and those against. Thank you, Charlotte ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

HATCHER website: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/faq.htm HATCHER DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hatDNA.htm HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm "If you can't stand the skeletons, stay out of the closet" - Val D Greenwood Charlotte, Please provide your email for us. Replying directly to your msg will just post it to the list. Thanks, Nel

Hi, In the early 1770s the family of Edward Hall, Jr. (1727-1807) of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, removed to Croydon in Sullivan county, NH founding a large family in that area. Is anyone on this list a part of this family or familiar with anyone in this family? Joseph Hall and I are trying to accumulate evidence to identify the correct history of this family as a recent genealogy by a well-respected genealogist has drastically altered the accepted pedigree of this family. The issue is with the identification of Edward's Hall grandfather. Edward was the son of Ens. Edward Hall and Hannah Fisher who were married in Wrentham, MA, in 1722. There are no known birth records for Ens. Edward Hall, nor are there probate records that identify him as a child of any particular family. In David B Hall's, Halls of New England book, the Ens. Edward Hall was identified as a son of Benjamin Hall a son of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. (Edward-3, Benjamin-2, Edward-1). This has been the only understanding until recently. With the lack of a birth record, we can assume that Ens. Edward was placed with Benjamin in part because it was the Benjamin Hall family that was living in Wrentham at the time, and Ens. Edward married there in 1722 and lived there afterwards. However, the late Dean Crawford Smith, FASG, published in 1999 his own genealogy in the four part "KEMPTON: The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton". In part 4, he has a chapter on the Hall family. For that book, he extensively reviewed record in Taunton, Uxbridge, Wrentham, and elsewhere to try to prove Benjamin as the father of Edward. Problems that he had were that Edward's birth record was not in the Wrentham records that were otherwise known to be very complete. Using land records and family naming patterns, he concluded that the Edward was a son of John Hall (John-3, Samuel-2, George-1) of Taunton where all of John's children were born and where most of the records have been lost. Smith's editor, Melinde Lutz Sanborn (editor of NGS Quarterly, NH Gen Soc Journal) has agreed that the proof he has is not rock solid - there were no smoking gun records, like there were for proving the two Samuels of Taunton issue. For now, we will be maintaining the traditional analysis in our database as we believe that to be most likely. However, it is well known that the Halls of New England book has many major errors, especially in the sorting out of the Halls of Bristol county, MA. Consequently, we are looking for additional evidence to prove the pedigree. One route that is open to us is DNA testing. We have at least one DNA test of a descendant of George of Taunton and one of Edward of Rehoboth, and they have distinctly different DNA signatures. If we can find a male Hall descendant of Edward Hall, Jr., who will get tested, it should match one of the two reference samples. Of course, it would be preferable to have multiple reference samples for each of the two immigrant lines to be sure that the samples we have accurately reflect the DNA signatures of the original immigrants. We welcome suggestions. john Nashua, NH PS: If we ban DNA discussions from the list, would this message not be allowed?

Hello Charlotte I would be very pleased to see an end to DNA discussion. Very, very boring ! Thanks. Francis Payne Auckland, New Zealand ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 9:23 PM Subject: [HALL] Question from List Manager > Hello everyone, > > I want to take a vote on whether we want DNA discussed here. I have been > getting mail on both sides, so I think that the only fair thing to do is > to ask > you to please write to me privately and tell me what you think about it, > and > whether you want to see it disussed here. After all, this is YOUR list, > not mine, > and I want to make the majority happy. > I will see what the results are and let you know. I will wait till Tuesday > evening and then tally up those for and those against. > > Thank you, > Charlotte > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Like a lot of you I am on a number of lists. I ask you which is better, a list with very few post or one with a lot of post. As for me I'd rather see a lot of information posted that I can pick and chose what I am interested in. I can delete all that I am not interested in and read or save what interest me. If nothing comes down the list of what use is the list. I have only two complaints : 1 Change the subject line. If there are twenty post with the same subject line and you want to reread one you cannot find it. 2 NO PERSONAL ATTACKS. Keep replies general. If you want to complain about someone do so directly to them or to the list manager directly not the list as a whole. Thank you for your time, Roland Hall

The complain I have with the list is too many people put stuff on the list that should be handled by personel e-mail. ----- Original Message ----- From: "roahall" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 8:18 AM Subject: [HALL] My two cents worth. > Like a lot of you I am on a number of lists. I ask you which is better, > a > list with very few post or one > with a lot of post. As for me I'd rather see a lot of information posted > that I can pick and chose what > I am interested in. I can delete all that I am not interested in and > read > or save what interest me. If nothing comes down the list of what use is > the > list. > > I have only two complaints : 1 Change the subject line. If there are > twenty post with the same subject > line and you want to > reread one you cannot find it. > 2 NO PERSONAL ATTACKS. > Keep replies general. If you want to > complain about someone > do so directly to them or to the list manager > directly not the list > as > a whole. > > Thank you for your time, > Roland Hall > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >