I don't know why I don't seem to show up on the list of those "listening" because I'm getting a lot of e-mail Haven't been on the computer much lately at all, but currently trying to catch up on what's in the mailbox. I do look at the Ludington e-mails to see what turns up. Margaret Ludington > Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 08:52:47 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LUDDINGTON] (no subject) > > I just had a notice from the Family Tree DNA folks saying the they had found a > match to one of our Luddington men. The man mentioned was Stephen Luddington who > has passed away a few years ago and who did not match very closely with many of > us at the time the test was done. > Y-DNA is the stuff passed on from father to son. to son, etc.and Steve's Y-DNA > did not match anywhere near most of the Ludd and Lud men which means that at > some time the father of one of the his kin was not a Lud. We have no idea when > this ocurred or who was the man and probably never will. > However Steve does have a match with another person but they will not release > the man's name as he does not belong to the Ludington study. > > As more and more Y-DNA tests are done over the next few years this will probably > be a fact that occurs more often as new entries are made and compared to known > figures already in the database. > > Other news........we have had over 25 folks reply to the request to confirm you > are still "listening" to the Ludd news.at [email protected] . Thanks for > hanging in there and keeping the news flowing with new birth, marriage, and even > death info. We are waiting for the 1940 US census figures to come out soon and > will then be able to add much to our data base once again. > > Ron Ludington > This list is adoptable. If you would like to volunteer to adminster this list, click here: http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listrequest.pl > ------------------------------- > 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