Might I add that the AWESOME job that Roy has done in compiling the DNA results and the resultant chart for the Pace project, with explanatory notes, helps immensely in understanding. I'm a proxy-member of another surname project and the Pace chart blows the others out of the water. We're fortunate to have someone who keeps it up like this. (Besides, it's real purty :-) Thanks, Roy, for all your efforts. - Joyce H. royj@webster.edu wrote: > > If you understand how DNA works and what its limits > are it can be a help. It is > better at disproving than at proving, but it can > support documentary evidence. > Look at the DNA chart > (http://www.pacesociety.org/DNA/results.htm) and see > how > consistently the John of Middlesex Pace descendents > (group 2) match each other > but NOT the Jamestown area Pace descendents (3a and > 3b), but notice how > consistently those Paces match each other. If this > isn't helpful data, I don't > know what is.

I'll give a hearty second to that motion. The Pace DNA project and Roy's organization and presentation of the results represents a job very well done. None of my other surname projects come anywhere close. While it has not told anyone exactly who their gggggg-grandpa was, that not being within the scope of the technology, it has answered some important questions and given some clues to others. Now we really need some more donors from the Frederick of Wales lines to hep us answer that question. Joe Anderson ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Joyce" <joy_harr@swbell.net> To: PACE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [PACE-L] Usefulness of DNA Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:20:14 -0500 Might I add that the AWESOME job that Roy has done in compiling the DNA results and the resultant chart for the Pace project, with explanatory notes, helps immensely in understanding. I'm a proxy-member of another surname project and the Pace chart blows the others out of the water. We're fortunate to have someone who keeps it up like this. (Besides, it's real purty :-) Thanks, Roy, for all your efforts. - Joyce H. royj@webster.edu wrote: > > If you understand how DNA works and what its limits > are it can be a help. It is > better at disproving than at proving, but it can > support documentary evidence. > Look at the DNA chart > (http://www.pacesociety.org/DNA/results.htm) and see > how > consistently the John of Middlesex Pace descendents > (group 2) match each other > but NOT the Jamestown area Pace descendents (3a and > 3b), but notice how > consistently those Paces match each other. If this > isn't helpful data, I don't > know what is.