Dave We just got our 200th participant, which includes 16 mtDNA, and 22 Family Finder (this group is growing fast!). Many of the mt and FF also did Y-DNA. Our project ranks about number 126 in size, compared to the BARTLETT surname being in the 300s for frequency. Ours is a very active and robust project, with many "teams" working on the 19 separate lines we've identified so far; and those trying to get other lines represented by matching DNA from at least two descendants. We've determined the biological father in four cases where the DNA didn't match as expected (all in late 1700s); and I'm actively working with three adoption issues which probably have BARTLETT fathers (the Family Finder DNA test is helping in two of these) Actually, I am active in the research of all of the BARTLETT lines. And now with Family Finder we can work with any descendant of a BARTLETT line, no matter how many males and females the descent goes through to the living DNA participant! We are having a lot of fun - and it's quite exciting, using the new DNA tools to augment our traditional (and sometimes, exhausted) paper records. As always, I encourage every serious genealogist to get the DNA of their lines documented! DNA Kits make great gifts - it's fun, interesting, informative, and using the results keeps the gift going for many months. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Dec 3, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Dave Kuhl <[email protected]> wrote: > Cool. I'll be here. My wife has a lot of health problems, so I am tied down > giving her shots, etc. She does not want to travel. So, most of my "travel" is > on the internet. > > > I did a program in November on DNA. > > How is your DNA project doing? > Dave Kuhl > 210 Glen Eagles Drive > Ocean Springs, MS 39564-9041 > e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Jim Bartlett <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, December 3, 2010 12:59:54 PM > Subject: Re: [HCGS] Greetings > > Dave - say hi to all the Seabees down there in Gulfpoot. I'll have to look you > up the next time I'm there (I've been a Seabee since 1967, and am now the Vice > Chairman of the Board for the Seabee Memorial Scholarship Association - we have > about 100 children of Seabees on $1,700 scholarships each year) > > Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! > > On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Dave Kuhl <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Greetings from the warm and sunny and snow free Mississippi Gulf Coast. >> >> My local society had our Christmas dinner meeting last night at a local >> restaurant. I had a seafood platter. Everything was locally caught and it was >> >> excellent. I brought half of it home in a takeout box. I had oysters, shrimp, > >> crab, broiled red fish, a baked potato and a salad. And no BP oil!! >> >> We were swapping tall tales about our ancestors. I told about Penelope Stout >> who was scalped by Indians. (I avoided the gruesome details while we were >> eating.) >> >> A lady told about being descended from Andrew Barnes who claimed to have shot >> Cornstalk. Another lady said that she was descended from Cornstalk. >> >> These ladies then got on their walkers and jousted with butter knives at three > >> paces. Then they hugged and wished each other a Merry Christmas. >> >> >> (Just kidding about the jousting.) >> >> We had our annual election and installation of officers for the new year. I >> hold the records for having been president the most number of times. I managed >> >> to get other people to fill most of the offices. (It pays to be on the >> nominating committee.) I still have to do everything else: website, yearbook, >> >> newsletter, e-mail meeting notification, projects, etc. etc. >> >> We only lost one member to death this year. She had a heart valve replacement > >> at the Cleveland Clinic. The surgery went fine but she caught pneumonia and >> died. Several other hospitals including the Mayo Clinic had refused to operate >> >> on her. >> >> >> We are like many organizations. Our members are getting older. We are not >> recruiting enough new members. We are down to about 35 local members and about >> >> 15 out of town with 20 to 25 attending monthly meetings and work shops. We >> lost >> >> about 6 members who moved away after Hurricane Katrina. >> >> >> I sat next to a retired marine LC. I’ll probably help him with his memoirs. >> One >> >> of the men in his unit in Korea was the son of Allen Dulles. He was hit in the >> >> head with shrapnel and is still living in a hospital in Switzerland. (Allen >> Dulles was the head of the CIA. His brother John Foster Dulles was Secretary >> of >> >> State.) These stories should not be lost to history. >> >> Dave Kuhl >> 210 Glen Eagles Drive >> Ocean Springs, MS 39564-9041 >> e-mail: [email protected] >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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