Are you are participating in a DNA project? I'm curious if people are jumping on board with DNA testing and it it's proving successful for them. I've had my son do that DNA test for his THURMAN family (my first husband's line). I've contributed to a DAVIS male to do the DNA test, gotten a BUTLER cousin to do the DNA test and gotten my brother to do the DNA test for our WHALEN family. So far no "Eureka" moments. Anyone else having more positive results? Sandy (Whalen) Bauer

I have a "success" DNA story :-) (some of you may know this...) My maternal grandmother's lines are all southern IL (she was b. 1894 Moores Prairie Twp., JCI with ancestry all around there) To make this a "short" story: my father was told by his mother on her death bed in 1970 that he was not a JONES, but he was really son of a Jerome or Francis or some such... We had more family info than this, but I won't go through all the good and bad... It took me a few years to research that my grandfather was "probably" a Frank JEROME that was in the right place and time to be my grandfather... I ended up getting a full DNA analysis done (SuperDNA @ familytreedna) I had to find another direct male descendant to get tested since I didn't immediately match anyone... This took quite a while, but I did get connected with a biologist at Duke University who ended up getting her 1st cousin, a professor at Vanderbilt in Nashville to have his DNA done. Prof. Walter Jerome matches 64 y-chromosome markers exactly with mine and we are one allele off on the other 3. This is pretty accurate in saying we have a common ancestor in 7 generations or so - and I know exactly how we are. I am the reason there is a JEROME DNA project at familytreeDNA -- everyone tells me "all" JEROME's in U.S. descend from Timothy JEROME (1688 - abt 1749); this didn't help me since I wasn't sure I was a JEROME or not ! Frank Carlton JEROME d. in 1937 (my father was 16 at the time and never knew Frank). Frank apparently never did marry, though he apparently had two children by my paternal grandmother - my grandmother and Mark JONES divorced in 1921 shortly after my father was born... oh them roaring 20's... (she was something else.. nuff said) Comments for those thinking of DNA: a) I would highly recommend familytreeDNA ; if you are male, please get all 67 markers done. I had several matches with 12 and 37 markers-- this only gets you connected within 20+ generations (see www.familytreedna.com website). I expect sometime soon they will be doing more markers as more samples are in the database and they can do the research to determine mutation rates on potential other markers. (I did SuperDNA in April 2008 and ended up doing a deep clade test later on) b) Not really sure how much worth the mitochondria DNA mapping is - I have thousands of mtDNA matches; this doesn't mutate very rapidly and I think until the database is considerably larger with more markers, this only has very limited genealogy value. It is interesting from an "ancient" ancestry perspective. I don't know much about this "new" Family Finder method that is using markers on other chromosomes -- though, I will probably have this done at some point... -SRJ > -----Original Message----- > From: ilfrankl-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ilfrankl- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sandy Bauer > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 7:36 PM > To: ilfrankl@rootsweb.com; iljeffer@rootsweb.com; > ILWayne@rootsweb.com; ilhamilt@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILFRANKL] DNA testing > > Are you are participating in a DNA project? I'm curious if people are > jumping on board with DNA testing and it it's proving successful for them. > > I've had my son do that DNA test for his THURMAN family (my first > husband's line). I've contributed to a DAVIS male to do the DNA test, > gotten a BUTLER cousin to do the DNA test and gotten my brother to do > the DNA test for our WHALEN family. So far no "Eureka" moments. > > Anyone else having more positive results? > > Sandy (Whalen) Bauer > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILFRANKL- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message