SHERWOOD-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Subject: > > SHERWOOD-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 15 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [SHERWOOD] Sherwood Soccer Stars, [demidave@juno.com] > #2 [SHERWOOD] Sherwood DNA [demidave@juno.com] > > Administrivia: > > ATTENTION !!!! PLEASE do not hit your "Reply" button and return this entire Digest to the list when responding to a particular message. If you choose to use your "Reply" button to quote a particular message within the Digest, please edit the "Subject:" line to reflect the subject of the message being quoted. Prior to sending your response to the list, PLEASE highlight and delete all quoted text not applicable to your response. > > ------------------------ > > To unsubscribe, send a message to: SHERWOOD-D-request@rootsweb.com > > In the subject line and first line of text in the message body, enter only the following word: UNSUBSCRIBE > > List Moderator: Jim Young <myoung@icok.net> > > ============================================= > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [SHERWOOD] Sherwood Soccer Stars, Artists, Potters and Hoteliers > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 22:29:53 -0500 > From: demidave@juno.com > To: SHERWOOD-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi All, > I saw a few interesting "Sherwood" items up for auction on Ebay: > > 1. Old canning jars made by "Sherwood Brothers Pottery" of N_______, > Pennsylvania. > The placename beginning with "N" was illegible. It was a long placename, > perhaps "Northumberland"? > > 2. A "Weller style urn" by "Weller, McCoy and Sherwood Pottery". > > 3. Art work by Rosina E. Sherwood appearing in a magazine in 1896. > > 4. An old postcard of the Sherwood House (aka "Sherwood Hotel") in > Hornell, Steuben Co, NY. > > 5. Trading cards of the British soccer ("football" to our British, > Aussie and Kiwi brethren) star, Tim Sherwood (I think the team was > Blackburn something-or-other). > > Does anyone have any idea who these Sherwoods are or were? > > Kind Regards, > Geoff > > Geoffrey Sherwood > demidave@juno.com > Towaco, NJ, USA > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [SHERWOOD] Sherwood DNA > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 23:17:24 -0500 > From: demidave@juno.com > To: SHERWOOD-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi All, > For those of you who might consider DNA testing to aid in determining > your ancestry, I'd like to share an interesting newspaper article that I > read in the Feb. 28th New Jersey "Star Ledger." > > A 51 year old, former Rutgers University professor, Ms. Pearl Duncan had > spent nine years and thousands of dollars trying to trace her ancestors > from America to Jamaica, on back to Africa. Slaveholders left scant > historical records of the origins of their slaves, so Ms. Duncan lacked > scientific evidence connecting her family to Africa. But at long last, > with the help of a University of Arizona geneticist, using samples of her > father's DNA, the scientist helped prove that ancestors of Ms. Duncan > lived in Ghana. > > Ms. Duncan's father had a patois nickname "Pari", which she felt probably > came from the surname "Opare" used by the Akan people of southern Ghana. > But she lacked hard evidence. So she launched a search for recent > Ghanaian immigrants with the Opare surname near her home in New York. > >From churches in Harlem and Flatbush, she found and persuaded 36 > parishioners to submit DNA samples to the Arizona geneticist, hoping to > find a match with her father's samples. What she found was astonishing. > Of the 36 people, 30 were found to have a common ancestor with her > father. Ms. Duncan says there is a strong physical resemblance between > her own family and some of the African families whose DNA matched her > father's samples, showing they shared a common ancestor some 400 years > ago. As evidence she offers photos of herself and immigrant Vida Opare, > a nurse and DNA "cousin" who "looks more like me than some of my sisters > do," Duncan said (the article contains photos of Ms. Duncan and Ms. > Opare, and it is absolutely stunning - they almost look like identical > twins). Another DNA relative, Ghanaian engineering student Kwabena > Kissiedo Mankure-Atiemo, closely resembles her nephew, David Burnett, a > Tennessee engineering student. > > The article goes on to say: "Some companies are taking thousands of blood > and saliva samples in order to build a vast DNA database. They hope to > construct databases so comprehensive that, with a single sample of blood > or a swab of the cells from inside a customer's cheek, they can link an > individual to a relative across town or to an ancestor thousands of miles > and centuries ago." > > The article mentions that one technique to test for relatedness is to > search for at least 12 common genetic markers along the Y-chromosome, > which is passed intact from father to son. Another common test compares > genetic markers found in DNA within the mitochondria (remember all the > press a few years ago about mitochondria and the two conflicting "Out of > Africa" theories of anatomically-modern human migration?), which is > inherited by all children from their biological mothers. > > One of the for-profit companies that does DNA testing is "Family Tree > DNA" (see www.FamilyTreeDNA.com). I am not promoting the site; I know > nothing about it other than the fact that it was mentioned in the > article. The article says they charge from US $219 to $319 for tests. > > Particularly in Europe, more and more private firms are offering to > perform DNA analysis for genealogy purposes. For $180, Oxford Ancestors > (www.OxfordAncestors.com) headed by Bryan Sykes, a researcher from the > Univeristy of Oxford in England, will test the DNA of people of European > descent. > > "The for-profit firms are only part of a larger picture. Universities, > anthropology groups and historical commissions are among those trying to > establish DNA databases that will help determine origin and link > ancestry." > > "In New York, the African Burial Ground Project is testing the remains of > slaves buried in Lower Manhattan to provide a DNA comparison with modern > Africans and African-Americans. In Washington D.C., African Ancestry > Project researchers at Howard University are collecting blood samples > throughout West Africa to trace the lineage of Americans. And in Utah, > the Molecular Genealogy Project at Brigham Young University is attempting > to build a database of 100,000 DNA samples from 500 population groups > around the world." > > Kind Regards, > Geoff > > Geoffrey Sherwood > demidave@juno.com Dear Geoff, Tim Sherwood used to play for soccer for Blackburn but is now a star player for Tottenham Hotspurs, in the English League. You can look him up in the internet under Tottenham Hotspurs where there is a page devoted to him, including a (not very clear) photo. He does not look much like any of our Western Australian Sherwoods and does not appear to be interested in genealogy. Regards, Margaret Love. > Towaco, NJ, USA > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.