Hello, My. Wyly Thank you for your response. I am familiar with the Alexander Cleveland / Col. Peter Presley family in Colonial Virginia.You must be very proud to claim that distinctive family as your own! I'm also familiar with the family outline which shows how Elvis Presley and Oprah Winfrey are related. I'm very familiar with the family chart that shows how Jimmy Carter and Elvis Presley are related ( a completely separate way from the Oprah path.) Organizations like Rootsweb have dispersed these interesting family alliances on many of their sites. There are a number of us who have spent considerable time (years) in court houses, archives, in old folks' living rooms and at microfilm readers looking for the documentation that would make either of these possibilities factual. Some of us are hoping to find our connection to Elvis; some of us are just trying to find our ancestors. Whatever the desired goal, the reality would seem that there is no documentation of which I am aware to link Elvis Presley to any family further back than Dunnan Presley, who appears on the 1820 and 1830 Buncombe County, NC census. There was recently a media stir caused by a fellow who writes books about entertainment people as a means of making a living. He claimed to have proof irrefutable that Elvis' ancestors hailed from a tiny little burgh in Aberdeenshire, Scotland called Lonmay. He has not yet produced that proof. In fact, he simply repeats the speculation and suggestive reasoning that many others before him have pondered for years. That speculation is that a fellow named Andrew Pressley in Lonmay might be the same Andrew Pressley who appears in Anson County, North Carolina with something near the same birth year. There are a couple of Andrew Pressleys in and around Colonial North Carolina and there are a couple of Andrew Pressleys in and around Aberdeenshire, in the same time period. There is no documentation that this is anything other than coincidence and a demonstration of the popularity of the forename of Andrew. One of those Andrew Presleys is living near Dunnan Presley in Buncombe County in 1830. There is no evidence that he is was born in Scotland. The people of Lonmay, Scotland now have only memories of their former anonymity with which to console themselves. I hope I haven't discouraged you from looking for your Elvis connection. I feel that it's so important for people to do the research themselves. Where famous people are involved there are some people who simply cannot resist the temptation to turn suggestion into fact. The Internet makes it very easy. Many people have contacted me over the years to describe for me how they are related to Elvis. If it is so, and someone has proved it in the past, then anyone should be able to duplicate that path and trace any ancestor back through time using the same information. The people who try with an open mind and a blank slate get stopped at the same place - Dunnan Presley. There are plenty of living, breathing blood-relative cousins to Elvis out there. Even they have no idea where their family originated. (By the way, the Presley Y-DNA Project recently welcomed a Pressly family participant from Aberdeenshire, Scotland.) Thank you, Mr. Wyly. I appreciate your offer to share your information. Are your Wylys connected in any way with the Wylys who were associated with the David Pressley family in early Abbeville District, SC (emigrant from Glasgow, Scotland 1767)? Kind regards, Nancy Pressley The Presley-Pressley Family History Site http://presley-pressley.com The PRESLEY Y-DNA Project http://www.familytreedna.com/public/presley%2Dpressley/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles A Wyly" <wyly1@juno.com> To: <ncpressley@mindspring.com> Cc: <Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [Sc-Ir] PRESLEY - PRESSLEY Y-DNA PROJECT > Elvis Pressley, Opra Winfrey and many Wylys are descended from > P{irscilla Pressley then Mildred Pressley of Virginia who married > Alexander Cleveland, , whoi lived 1670- - 1770. in Virginia Can send you > a printout if interested. > > Charles Wyly > > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:55:33 -0500 "Nancy Pressley" > <ncpressley@mindspring.com> writes: >> Hello, researchers >> >> The Presley - Pressley Y-DNA Project, hosted by Family Tree DNA, >> now has 34 >> participants. We welcome any male member of any PRESSLEY family >> even if >> your name is spelled some way other than Pressley, including >> Presley, >> Pressly, >> Preslar, Pursley, Prestley, Presleigh, Presnell, etc. Our project >> goal is >> at least 100 participants. Our project was started in June of 2005 >> and has >> yielded information identifying five distinct family groups to >> date. >> >> By contributing to our Y-DNA Project you may learn to which >> ancestral line >> your Pressley ancestors belong and you will surely make new friends >> and find >> new cousins! >> >> The Presley Y-DNA Project website is located here. Scroll to the >> bottom of >> the page to see the DNA marker results. >> http://www.familytreedna.com/public/presley%2Dpressley/ >> >> The Presley-Pressley Family History Site is located here. This is >> the most >> comprehensive >> place on the web to find all kinds of data relating to the Presley >> (etc.) >> families: >> http://presley-pressley.com >> >> Our Presley-Pressley Internet research list, with over 425 >> subscribers >> is located here: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/presley-pressley >> >> The administrator for the Presley Y-DNA Project is Nancy Pressley. >> Please >> reach me here: >> ncpressley@midspring.com >> >> We welcome ALL Presley-Pressley family members, male or female, to >> join in >> our efforts to identify our ancestors and learn about their lives. >> We look >> forwarding to hearing from you. >> >> Thank you, >> Nancy Pressley >> >> >>