Gene and I have placed a much improved table of our Pennington DNA results on the web at: http://www.penningtonresearch.org/rc/DNA/DNA_Table-3-9-04.html click on the link (or copy it into the address line in your browser) and check it out. With this table it is much easier to see how representatives of the different groups match each other. The background color shows which groups are ultimately related to each other, if one goes back far enough in time. Where there is a different background color it means we have a different line of Penningtons. The pink highlighted markers mean this is a mutation, (quite normal, expected and harmless) or at least, a different value from the expected most frequent value for this marker in this group. Please bear in mind that just because there are Penningtons with only one sequence shown in this table it does not mean anything much at this point. As an example, I have several cousins in Canada and Italy who still bear the Penington name but I have not been successful in getting them to participate, even though I said I would pay for the test! If they did participate I could skew the data so it looked like Group 33 was a major force, genetically, when it comes to the Pennington surname. We would have to test thousands of Penningtons for this to suggest that any particular sequence does not represent a old lineage of men holding the Pennington surname. In addition, we simply have too few representatives of Penningtons and Pinningtons from the UK. It looks to me as if one line came over to this country quite early on (perhaps founded by Ephraim of CT) and this line has gone forth and multiplied very successfully. This line is dominating our results in this country, but might not do so if we had a truly representative sample of world wide Penningtons? Some lines also die out and so would appear at low frequency as perhaps the Muncaster line did? N.P.

Thanks Nick, But I need help!! How do I copy it to the address line in my browser? I still have a lot to learn computer wise. Thanks, Take care, Pat Trocano Group 7 Board Member Pennington Research Association, Inc. www.PenningtonResearch./org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas Penington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:30 PM Subject: Better data table on the web > Gene and I have placed a much improved table of our Pennington DNA results > on the web at: > > http://www.penningtonresearch.org/rc/DNA/DNA_Table-3-9-04.html > > click on the link (or copy it into the address line in your browser) and > check it out. With this table it is much easier to see how representatives > of the different groups match each other. The background color shows which > groups are ultimately related to each other, if one goes back far enough > in time. Where there is a different background color it means we have a > different line of Penningtons. The pink highlighted markers mean this is a > mutation, (quite normal, expected and harmless) or at least, a different > value from the expected most frequent value for this marker in this group. > Please bear in mind that just because there are Penningtons with > only one sequence shown in this table it does not mean anything much at > this point. As an example, I have several cousins in Canada and Italy who > still bear the Penington name but I have not been successful in getting > them to participate, even though I said I would pay for the test! If they > did participate I could skew the data so it looked like Group 33 was a > major force, genetically, when it comes to the Pennington surname. We > would have to test thousands of Penningtons for this to suggest that any > particular sequence does not represent a old lineage of men holding the > Pennington surname. In addition, we simply have too few representatives of > Penningtons and Pinningtons from the UK. It looks to me as if one line > came over to this country quite early on (perhaps founded by Ephraim of > CT) and this line has gone forth and multiplied very successfully. This > line is dominating our results in this country, but might not do so if we > had a truly representative sample of world wide Penningtons? Some lines > also die out and so would appear at low frequency as perhaps the Muncaster > line did? N.P. > > > ==== PRA Mailing List ==== > ==== PENNINGTON RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ==== > To see our new list of resources, go to http://www.penningtonresearch.org > > >