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 >