My beloved Daddy died on Dec. 31st at age 95. He was born and raised to adulthood in Barry Co. His obit is at this link: http://www.news-star.com/obituaries/x1015654000/Arnold-E-Long Patty McWilliams On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:00 AM, <mobarry-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (thedonnacooper@gmail.com) > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. DNA testing (Cheryl) > 2. Re: DNA testing (deena@wildak.net) > 3. Re: DNA testing (Donna Cooper) > 4. Re: DNA testing (schmidtcl@centurytel.net) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:35:06 -0800 (PST) > From: Cheryl <drags59@yahoo.com> > Subject: [MOBARRY] DNA testing > To: mobarry@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <1325532906.252.YahooMailClassic@web113215.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > So what program or vendor did you use for the DNA test?? I forsee my Dad > getting his mouth swabbed for his birthday!!! > ? > Cheryl > > ? > > As I told you yesterday I did DNA back the first part of December and > my results came in yesterday. For hours I have plowed through that > stuff reading and trying to understand what I have. All this time my > mud and tape job is going to the dogs while I study genetic markers. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 12:41:25 -0900 > From: <deena@wildak.net> > Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] DNA testing > To: <mobarry@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <D77733128E8447D0A1CCB3C8E39254FF@MaultHPlap> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Donna, I also wonder which DNA company you used. It sounds like you can > learn lots more than I realized. Could be a fun project for the new year. > > Deena Mault > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 16:30:31 -0600 > From: Donna Cooper <thedonnacooper@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] DNA testing > To: deena@wildak.net, mobarry@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CAKyvwmA-VDrRxwGz1n_XuyXVySGMNs2AeRyLu6VqM7k9cSDAiA@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > To Deena - and to all the others who have sent mail asking me about my > DNA experience. Since several of you have asked questions I thought > I'd answer on line. I hope not to bore you who are not interested in > the subject. If so, my apologies - just hit the delete! > > I used Family Tree DNA. They had it on sale through December - I > noticed a little bit ago that they extended the sale through Jan. 7th. > I used the Family Finder kit, but for men they would do Y Chromosome > testing. > > The reason I did the test is that I am hoping to find cousins and > relatives of my elusive George Simpson who lived in Barry County at > one time. We do have the promise of a direct descent of a man who says > he will do the Y Chromosome testing for us. I am still hoping he will > follow through because he is the only male direct descendant. > > So far, I haven't accomplished what I want to find out - but am having > fun by firming up a lot of my files. It is great to see a line that I > worked on and then to see a distant and remote cousin's file with the > same family line. It makes it worthwhile. A man in Pennsylvania, from > a leg of the family separated by 200 years turned up as a cousin on > two of my families. > > I am finding out that some of my Barry County lines are matching with > people who are from the same families but the connection dates back to > the early days of settlement. I am seeing that most of those people > are sometimes related to me in more than one way. The clusters of > families who lived in geographical pockets for several generations > seemed to be interrelated - and so that is helping some, I think. > > They take your markers and compare them with other men and women who > have done DNA. For women it is called MTDNA - mitochondrial - and so > all you see who has markers that match yours - they will give you the > details - say third cousin or so. If you have overlapping families a > 10th cousin my show up as a 3rd or say 2nd cousin. Then you compare > your families to theirs for about nine generations to see what > families they descend from and take it from there. Some people don't > get the full benefit of it because they don't put a list of names or a > Gedcom on their data sheets. I think that is a mistake - unless you > are a man and doing Y Chromosome testing. Then you take all the > markers and compare them by number. > > I can not believe the number of early day Virginia, North Carolina, > Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky > families that are popping up in the surnames of distant cousins - that > I didn't expect to see. My Mills and Haddock families in North > Carolina and Maryland are not showing up as Mills and Haddock, and are > disguised in a cousin's line of names. I really am having to study the > early day Maryland and Craven Co., NC names again and refresh my > memory, as well as the Knox County, Kentucky names, too. I don't know > why I singled just just them out. The early day Virginia ones are a > hard, but the Massachusetts and Connecticut ones seem easier. That > might be because I spent more years studying them and am more familiar > with instant recall of families there. Nevertheless, it is a chore. So > - this is not a piece of cake - it takes work to figure some of it > out, but it is super fun! > > The finish work on my kitchen's sheet rock is lagging behind as well > as my web work for the web site - all for the joy of DNA. > > I hope you have a good genealogy year in 2012 and that you stay well. > > Donna Cooper > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:41 PM, <deena@wildak.net> wrote: > > Donna, I also wonder which DNA company you used. It sounds like you can > > learn lots more than I realized. ?Could be a fun project for the new > year. > > > > Deena Mault > > > > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (thedonnacooper@gmail.com) > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:30:50 -0500 > From: schmidtcl@centurytel.net > Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] DNA testing > To: <mobarry@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <20120102183050.e6nfvmjzo06osc0k@webmail2.centurytel.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format="flowed" > > Thanks for the info Donna!! > Connie > > Quoting Donna Cooper <thedonnacooper@gmail.com>: > > To Deena - and to all the others who have sent mail asking me about my > > DNA experience. Since several of you have asked questions I thought > > I'd answer on line. I hope not to bore you who are not interested in > > the subject. If so, my apologies - just hit the delete! > > > > I used Family Tree DNA. They had it on sale through December - I > > noticed a little bit ago that they extended the sale through Jan. 7th. > > I used the Family Finder kit, but for men they would do Y Chromosome > > testing. > > > > The reason I did the test is that I am hoping to find cousins and > > relatives of my elusive George Simpson who lived in Barry County at > > one time. We do have the promise of a direct descent of a man who says > > he will do the Y Chromosome testing for us. I am still hoping he will > > follow through because he is the only male direct descendant. > > > > So far, I haven't accomplished what I want to find out - but am having > > fun by firming up a lot of my files. It is great to see a line that I > > worked on and then to see a distant and remote cousin's file with the > > same family line. It makes it worthwhile. A man in Pennsylvania, from > > a leg of the family separated by 200 years turned up as a cousin on > > two of my families. > > > > I am finding out that some of my Barry County lines are matching with > > people who are from the same families but the connection dates back to > > the early days of settlement. I am seeing that most of those people > > are sometimes related to me in more than one way. The clusters of > > families who lived in geographical pockets for several generations > > seemed to be interrelated - and so that is helping some, I think. > > > > They take your markers and compare them with other men and women who > > have done DNA. For women it is called MTDNA - mitochondrial - and so > > all you see who has markers that match yours - they will give you the > > details - say third cousin or so. If you have overlapping families a > > 10th cousin my show up as a 3rd or say 2nd cousin. Then you compare > > your families to theirs for about nine generations to see what > > families they descend from and take it from there. Some people don't > > get the full benefit of it because they don't put a list of names or a > > Gedcom on their data sheets. I think that is a mistake - unless you > > are a man and doing Y Chromosome testing. Then you take all the > > markers and compare them by number. > > > > I can not believe the number of early day Virginia, North Carolina, > > Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky > > families that are popping up in the surnames of distant cousins - that > > I didn't expect to see. My Mills and Haddock families in North > > Carolina and Maryland are not showing up as Mills and Haddock, and are > > disguised in a cousin's line of names. I really am having to study the > > early day Maryland and Craven Co., NC names again and refresh my > > memory, as well as the Knox County, Kentucky names, too. I don't know > > why I singled just just them out. The early day Virginia ones are a > > hard, but the Massachusetts and Connecticut ones seem easier. That > > might be because I spent more years studying them and am more familiar > > with instant recall of families there. Nevertheless, it is a chore. So > > - this is not a piece of cake - it takes work to figure some of it > > out, but it is super fun! > > > > The finish work on my kitchen's sheet rock is lagging behind as well > > as my web work for the web site - all for the joy of DNA. > > > > I hope you have a good genealogy year in 2012 and that you stay well. > > > > Donna Cooper > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:41 PM, <deena@wildak.net> wrote: > > > Donna, I also wonder which DNA company you used. It sounds like you can > > > learn lots more than I realized. ?Could be a fun project for the new > year. > > > > > > Deena Mault > > > > > > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (thedonnacooper@gmail.com) > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in > > the subject and the body of the message > > > > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (thedonnacooper@gmail.com) > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in > > the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the MOBARRY list administrator, send an email to > MOBARRY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the MOBARRY mailing list, send an email to > MOBARRY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of MOBARRY Digest, Vol 7, Issue 3 > ************************************* >