Samantha, Just a reminder to all of us that are searching for that elusive northeastern NC Sawyer connection. With all of the people, that have spent countless thousands of hours, searching for that connection there probably just isn't any paper trail to be found. If you are really interested in getting over this "brick wall" the Family Tree DNA "Sawyer Surname Project" is probably the best avenue left for us, but we have to have several male Sawyers that are willing to spend a little money to find out. The 12 Marker Y-DNA test cost only $101.00 (total) and that will give some real good indicators, the 25 Marker Y-DNA test cost $171.00 (total) and that will narrow the results down consideralby. Fred Sawyer, of Connecticut, got the full blown 37 Marker test and just received several leads of people who he is related to. Our tests showed that Fred and I have no common ancestor for at least 600 years, so.... I guess that means we are not related. But we now know that at least some of the northern Sawyer lines have no connections with the Sawyers from the Carolina's. Please think about joining, we need some participants to make this work. Go to their web site - familytreedna.com or contact me. Robert R. Sawyer Houston, TX

Robert I think you are right about the paper trail and may just be non existent. With DNA, it can certainly be traced back to the area and the origin as the pool grows. Certainly an exciting science in more ways than one. Arcell Sawyer ----- Original Message ----- From: <RS4147@aol.com> To: <SAWYER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: [SAWYER] Re: Sawyer line from early early NC > Samantha, > Just a reminder to all of us that are searching for that elusive > northeastern NC Sawyer connection. > With all of the people, that have spent countless thousands of hours, > searching for that connection there probably just isn't any paper trail to > be found. > If you are really interested in getting over this "brick wall" the Family > Tree DNA "Sawyer Surname Project" is probably the best avenue left for us, > but > we have to have several male Sawyers that are willing to spend a little > money > to find out. The 12 Marker Y-DNA test cost only $101.00 (total) and that > will > give some real good indicators, the 25 Marker Y-DNA test cost $171.00 > (total) and that will narrow the results down consideralby. > Fred Sawyer, of Connecticut, got the full blown 37 Marker test and just > received several leads of people who he is related to. > Our tests showed that Fred and I have no common ancestor for at least 600 > years, so.... I guess that means we are not related. But we now know that > at > least some of the northern Sawyer lines have no connections with the > Sawyers > from the Carolina's. > Please think about joining, we need some participants to make this work. > Go to their web site - familytreedna.com or contact me. > Robert R. Sawyer > Houston, TX > > > ==== SAWYER Mailing List ==== > Send queries with: name, date,place > James Sawyer , 1842, Eaton,Quebec > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >