....and I've always suspected that this line connects with mine! I don't think either my Wiley Henry Jordan or your Wiley Blount Jordan has had a descendant tested.... Anyone??? Dot Wirth wrote: >Has anyone proven to be from this line taken the DNA test? It takes several >greats before grandparents before I get to JORDAN but my mother's first >cousin, Clifford, remembers when there was a lot of visiting between her >grandmother Addie JORDAN ANDREWS and the JORDAN cousins. And, yes - we do >pronounce it Gerd-an. Addie had a brother named Virgil. > > > >Clifford and I were at the National Odom Assembly (NOA) last weekend in >Eufaula, AL and they are also working hard on the DNA testing. We find it >very interesting but I'm so far removed (plus being female) that I can't >take the tests! > > > >The last conversations I had over Jordan-L back in 1998 indicated Wiley >Blount JORDAN may have been descended from Meredith JORDON m. Margaret >ACRES>Benjamin L. JORDAN m. either Elizabeth L. CLARK or Elizabeth BYRD. >Benjamin had a brother named Williamson JORDAN. > > > >One of Addie and Dr. T. H. ANDREWS' daughters was called Birdie Lee - given >the family's history of using ancestors surnames as given names, this could >well have been BYRD/BIRD and Lee could have been a family surname as well. > > > >Anyone have an update on this line? > > > > > >==== JORDAN Mailing List ==== >List webpage - http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/j/jordan.html >some JORDAN resources - http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/surnames/jordan/ >Genealogy Links - http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/GEN-links.htm > > > >