This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Qi3.2ACIB/1804.1.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: We have reached the point where we are most interested in the DNA project. Can you give me a little more info about the size of the data base you are working with? How many lines have been identified? Can we find out if specific lines we are researching are included?

I was have just received the results back of my DNA test. It is very interesting. Check out the Norton DNA Project page: http://www.nortonfamily.net/DNA.htm My DNA markers are not up on the site yet, but I think I will be family#8 once they are up and I am closest (much much closer) to family#6. My family and family#6 together would make the 4th pair of Norton lines, each with different DNA markers, meaning that each of the 4 Norton lines on the page are unrelated (within the last couple thousand years, anyway). Another thing I got from my test was the ethnic origins of all the other matches in the database, whether or not they were surnamed Norton. All the readin I have done seems to indicate that the Norton line I am a member of is most likely to come from the Celtic peoples (Irish, Scots-Irish, Scotch, Welsh or english descendants of the celts that inhabited England before the saxons invaded England. The other 3 lines on the Norton DNA project seem more likely to be descended from the germanic invaders of europe (angles, saxons, franks, normans,etc.). I hope that some Nortons descended from David Norton in the Mars Hill area of N.C. would get tested as I trace my family back to that area with no documented connection to that family. I am also curious about whether any of us southern Nortons are related to the New England Nortons. I hope some of them get tested. By the way, the surname test is of markers on the "Y" chromosome, which is passed from father to son to son.... So a male Norton of your branch of the family would need to be tested. One warning, the test won't tell you exactly "how" you are related. So you may find that your Joebob is related to someone else's Jimbob, but whether they are brothers, cousins, 3rd cousins is something that will still require good old geneology techniques. But may eliminate false trails and put you on the right trail at least. Hope this encourages some of you to try the DNA test. ----- Original Message ----- From: <k1norton@adelphia.net> To: <NORTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 11:57 AM Subject: [NORTON] Re: Miles F Norton Abt 1820 > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Qi3.2ACIB/1804.1.1.1.1.3 > > Message Board Post: > > We have reached the point where we are most interested in the DNA project. Can you give me a little more info about the size of the data base you are working with? How many lines have been identified? Can we find out if specific lines we are researching are included? > > > ==== NORTON Mailing List ==== > NORTON List Website > Carlota Norton Robinson Memorial Website > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~norton > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237