Hi List, This months issue has an article entitled, "The Greatest Journey Ever Told, The Trail of our DNA". It is about the movement of the population of this Earth out of Africa. Well worth reading. I wonder when it will be the basis of Genealogy? Wayne

I saw a National Geographic TV program last June and had my mtdna done with them. It was quite interesting and I uploaded my results to FTDNA. I have been in their data base and never had anyone match me. But I know my grandmother was East European. Since she was adopted, maybe a cousin will match someday and I can learn more. This is only female to female line back and it would be a daughter of a sister but I don't even know if she had a sister. But still a sister of her mother would do and her girl children would have the same mtdna. It is a waiting game and you have to be lucky. Since I have a rare halogroup when a match shows up then it might be a good one for me. But then had my brother take the Y-DNA Tests from FTDNA. I was able to see with my brother's results and a 4th cousin's results that they matched 37/37. We then had what could be said our family Y-DNA. A test then was made to someone who was 6 generations back to George Purtlebaugh. Our John was also 6 generations. We proved they were from the same root family. Our paper trail did not connect with our name Bartlebaugh only one mention 50 years ago-- a story that a preacher had a town named after him . They used the spelling Purtlebaugh before but then after 1800 changed the spelling to Bartlebaugh. Bartlebaugh Tennessee was named after a traveling Preacher name George Bartlebaugh who changed his name from Purtlebaugh. So we now have a hint at what maybe our 7th or 8th generation main man. We were stuck for 50 years at our 6th generation back Hopefully as the data base gets bigger, we can find more from our root family. Elaine -------Original Message------- From: Wayne Date: 03/01/06 17:58:19 To: PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAWESTMO-L] Current National Geographic magazine Hi List, This months issue has an article entitled, "The Greatest Journey Ever Told, The Trail of our DNA". It is about the movement of the population of this Earth out of Africa. Well worth reading. I wonder when it will be the basis of Genealogy? Wayne ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ====