If you did NOT receive the email pasted below and would like to have a copy of the article mentioned just send me a blank email at this hot link: brerfox@bellsouth.net ...and I will promptly reply with a return email containing the attachment. Thanks, Maynard To those on my email address list: I am attaching for each of you a copy of a DNA article that appears in today's Wall St. Journal. As might be expected in a general interest type article, it is likely more interesting than it is instructive. But interesting to me it was..and I thought it might be interesting to you as well. Several thoughts struck me as I read this article: ++++ interesting that the author was in our own rather common British Isles R1b haplogroup...but no particular surprise. ++++ the author mentions access to a "generalized" DNA database that can be "searched" for matches among the general population..which was how he found his still mysterious "Mr. Rutherford." I had not heard of this and wondered if that might be a string to pull on only once just to see if there was something there. Is this news to you, Barbara? ++++ I took note that Family Tree DNA (our supplier) "automatically does a SNP test if 12 or more tested markers on the Y chromosome show a pattern that hasn't already been SNP tested, at no extra cost. I'm surmising that it's thus likely our haplogroup is common enough to already have our theoretical Stone Age progenitor..wonder if there is anything in the testing done or testing to come that might (if not by "name" <g>) at least lead us to generally where "our guy's" cave might have been? ...shoot, I'd even settle for where Francis hung out in Newent. I am attaching this article to those for whom I have an email address. I elected to do so because sending it to the group posed the usual problems. The Rootsweb pipeline won't accommodate an attachment. I could have posted the article to an email itself but that converts it to text which is something of a mess to read. I'll send a separate email to the Rootsweb address asking any who aren't on my mailing list and would be interested in having a copy of this article to simply address a blank email to me to which I'll reply with the attachment. Maynard

Thanks, Maynard, for alerting us to this article & helping us see a copy of it. You commented & asked me: "the author mentions access to a generalized DNA database that can be searched for matches among the general population, which was how he found his still mysterious Mr. Rutherford. I had not heard of this and wondered if that might be a string to pull on only once just to see if there was something there. Is this news to you, Barbara?" For info on the 2 DNA databases that I am aware of, and for other helpful sources of info on DNA, see my message I'll be sending later today captioned "More DNA info: Ysearch; YBase.org; Genealogy-DNA-L; and Facts & Genes Newsletter" Re your comment noting that the author of the article mentioned that "FamilyTreeDNA does a SNP test if 12 or more tested markers on the Y chromosome show a pattern that hasn't already been SNP tested, at no extra cost, and your accompanying surmise that it's likely our haplogroup is common enough to already have our theoretical Stone Age progenitor & wonder if there is anything in the testing done or testing to come that might at least lead us to generally where our progenitor lived" That info certainly might be known, but I'll admit I'm unaware of it. I don't know of any progenitor-location more specific than the British Isles for the R1b Haplogroup, but then I have not read up specifically on the SNP test. If you do so (whether via the sources of info mentioned in my other message, or by doing further research on the internet), I'll be glad to learn what you find. Cheers, Barbara Poythress Neal