From: Dicksmothersjr@aol.com To: Nena Smothers <smothersnena@hotmail.com> Subject: Smothers DNA Project Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:36:12 EST I am Dick Smothers Jr, son of one of the Smothers Brothers. Since we're the most recognizable of those with the name, would you like some of my DNA? I'm serious. Genealogy fascinates me, especially my own. Regards,>Dick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Howdy Cuz....you bet, we would love for you to participate in our SMOTHERS DNA project! I am thrilled you wrote. My cuz Lucille Smothers of AZ, wife of Don Smothers, mentioned she had fwded our site to someone that might get in touch with you. I will send you the link to order the kit as soon as I send this out. It can all be done online, Dick. Its a simple cheek swab done in 2 days. It comes fr Family Tree DNA in Houston Tx and once they get the sample back, they forward it onto Univ of AZ for analysis, takes abt 4 wks. I would like to mention its a totally secure site and the kit can be ordered by credit or debit card; also there will be a 'release form' that comes with the kit...PLEASE be sure to sign this, as it releases the results so I can compare them with other participants and with your personally permission, which I do ask for, to post them on our DNA site, set up by Cuz Bill Smothers. I am aware of your line chart....we just can not connect your grandfather to a known Smothers but since your folks were in the Tn/Nc area...this could help us validate some thoughts we have on tieing our lines together. If you would like to see what I have on your line, I would be most happy to send it to you via email. Also if you see errors in it or have additions to it, you are most welcome to please correct anything! When I was in my 20s [I am 60y] my aunt went to VA archives in Richmond, and I remember very well, when she returned [we were living in Tx then], she told me we were kin to the Smothers Brothers and gave me tubes of fragile parchment with charts on them. Which, much to my dismay, have been lost in my moving fr Tx to WA state where I live now abt 25yrs ago. I did not get into genealogy until around 1995, so I could kick myself for not taking better care of those possessions. Genealogy is a great way to put flesh back on the bones of our ancestors and walk in their footsteps! Then be so thankful they made it bec we are here only today bec of them. If you would like to sub to our great Smothers mail list tribe, let me know, I know folks on it would love to chat with you. I bid you a Very Good Day, then Dick, and hope to hear from you soon. Thank you again, so much, for writing to me, yr cuz no doubt, Nena Smothers-Washington State My gggg grandfather William Smeathers http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/smothers.htm Brazoria Co Hist Museum-Wm Smeathers Will/Obit http://www.bchm.org/Austin/panel14.html Migrations of Wm Smeathers http://www.migrations.org/individual.php3?record=21943 "Life ain't in holding a good hand, but playing a good hand well." Fr Law of the Heart by Dorothy Gentry as told abt Wm Smeathers **I am genial genealogist, I seek to the secrets of the past whether squeaky clean or scarlet lettered, I want my Past Unmasked. A friend told me - "My Mother paid a Genealogist $500.00 to research her family tree... then pd him $1500 to 'shut mouth'...** _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail