Sherry , I checked out the site . Like i said i am not very good at this William Bolling is listed in the Dna group born 1755 to 1830 he is in Group 6 i think he is under the Fh913 llist but it seems to have a question mark after it the oldest individual in this group is Benjamin Bowling 1704 with the exact Dna is that a direct lineage from Benjamin to William they are both in the R1b list what does that mean phyllis -----Original Message----- From: Sherry Baker Frazier <slfrazier@comcast.net> To: KYJACKSO-L@rootsweb.com <KYJACKSO-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, February 05, 2006 11:28 AM Subject: [KYJACKSO] Abel Pennington >The Elizabeth Bowling who married Abel Pennington was the daughter of the Rev. Jesse Bowling. >This Bowling line is not connected to Pochontas. > >DNA testing has proved this as well as documentation. >Beware of any books or persons saying so. > >My suggestion is to join the Bowling family association or check out their DNA site. >http://www.bolling.net/ > >This site also has the DNA test results. There are 212 members of the Boling DNA group. > >This email came from Retired General Bud Bolling, one of the contributing editors to the Bolling family newsletter. > >Competent genealogy researchers discovered long before DNA was injected into >the problem that Benjamin Bolling (1734-1832) was not, repeat, not, a >descendant of Major John Bolling (1700-1757). This proof was carried in the >"Memoir" by John's son, Robert Bolling (1739-1775), the will of another of >John's sons, Edward Bolling, plus a number of other official documents, now >in the Library of Congress. This proof was catalogued by the late Chester T. >Bolling, who was a confirmed descendant of Benjamin, was born and grew up in >Wise County, VA, and spent more than fifty years trying to connect Benjamin >to the "Red" Bolling line. He never could do so. On the contrary, he became >one of the researchers who could list all of the documents that proved that >Benjamin was not related either to Major John Bolling or to any other blood >relative of the immigrant Robert Bolling (1646-1709), the fellow who married >Jane Rolfe. This evidence is so strong that the DAR will no longer accept >Benjamin as a descendant of Pocahontas. > >When we started working with the DNA company, we found five men who had >authenticated their relationship back to the immigrant Robert. Two were >"Red" Bollings and three were "White" Bollings. All five had their DNA >profile developed, all the way out to twenty-five markers. All five had >identically the same profile, which meant that we had Robert Bolling's >profile, down to the last number. That means that any male named Bolling who >is related to the Robert Bolling who married Jane Rolfe and, then, Anne >Stith, will have the same DNA numbers as the immigrant. > >In the meantime, two things happened. First, Harley Bowling (a descendant of >Jesse Bowling (and probably Benjamin) prepared a list of 78 different >Bolling/Bowling/ Bolen/Bouldin immigrants whose names were listed in ships' >manifests as immigrants. > >The second thing done was to contact as many Bolling/Bowling male >descendants still using the family name as we could. About thirty or forty >volunteers contacted us, and they all paid to be tested by the DNA company. >As the Bolling web site will show, not one of them has a DNA profile >anywhere near that of the 1660 immigrant. > >Now this story get longer and longer, but the fact remains that Benjamin >Bolling is not related to Major John Bolling (1700-1757) or to anyone in the >Pocahontas line. > > >Sherry Lynn Baker Frazier >President >Owsley County History and Genealogy Society >http://owsleykyhist.org >http://itainttv.com > > > > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >