The Caudill DNA Project traces the Y chromosome passed from father to son across the generations. I'm Jeremiah's 4th great-grandson therefore we have a good basis for saying what Jeremiah's YDNA marker values were (same as mine). YDNA research can only provide evidence that two descending males "were related", or conversely disprove relationship. YDNA can't prove what that relationship was. In other words, my uncle and my brother have the same YDNA as I do. We can't discern brother from uncle just by looking at the YDNA. We have a participant from the Jesse P. line that matches my DNA very closely. This would, it seems to me, lend credence to Clayton Cox's suggestion that Jesse P. was very closely related to Jeremiah. (I'm stopping at this point and measuring my words carefully so as not to inadvertantly incite a riot). We have two samples from the Stephen A. Caudill line and they match my "Jeremiah" sample to a great extent but there are a few mismatches at a couple of fast moving markers. This would strongly imply kinship but it MIGHT be more distant than traditionally accepted. We know from the pension papers that Stephen A. and James Jr. were brothers. We really need a sample from the James Jr. line to bring this more into focus. If the James Junior sample matches the Stephen A. samples very closely, then we can start to suspect that there was a significant generational difference between James Junior and Jeremiah (thereby significantly lessening the PROBABILITY that Jeremiah and James Junior Uncle and nephew). At that point, we'd have a WILLIAM sample via the Jeremiah line, two STEPHEN A. samples, and a JAMES JR. sample. If they do not match, it's highly improbable that they were brothers. That's why I'm tyrying to get a Grandpa Billy participant sample as well. If the Grandpa Billy participant matches my sample precisely, or the Jesse P. sample, then we can deduce that there haven't been many, or any, marker mutations in the Jeremiah line since say 1800 or so. If it doesn't match, well, more head scratching I suppose. It's interesting to note that our CAUDELL participants match very closely with the other samples once again implying strongly that the CAUDELL's and CAUDILL's are kin. These lines descend from two different Benjamin Caudill's from the late 1700's. To participate you must be a male with a CAUDILL blood line. We'd love to have anyone in the project that qualifies. Great stuff. Confused yet? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nanalee Wrenn" <nwrenn37@yadtel.net> To: <ncwilkes@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [NCWILKES] Joines Cemetery, Wilkes County, NC > Thanks Jim > > >> Sarah (Sally) Jane Adams was born 26 Dec 1780 and died May of !858; some >> have said she was born in 1787 but she had children in 1799, 1801, 1082, >> 1803 etc which would mean she was 12 when her first child was born >> besides >> census records do not bear out the 1787 date but does the 1780. She was >> the >> daughter of John Adams, Jr. and Ann Caudill who was dau of James Caudill >> Sr >> and Mary Yarborough. If this was the case then the father of Jeremiah >> Caudill (Sarah's husband) who is thought to be William Caudill a son of >> James Sr then Jeremiah and Sarah would have been first cousins maybe the >> DNA >> project on the Caudill line can prove or disprove that theory. Jim >> Ovendorf > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCWILKES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >