I am copying this verbatim from the STRICKLAND list, to which I also subscribe. They have just completed a DNA study with BYU. There is an excellent website summarizing the results, which is referenced. Ron Strickland of Denver spent over a year coordinating this project, and did a fantastic job. EXCERPT from the STRICKLAND-L@rootsweb.com: Most of you already are aware, but another opportunity is underway for Strickland/Stricklin/etc. surname males to submit a "cheek swab" (a cotton swab twirled on the inside of the cheek to gather loose cells) to identify from which family branch they & their relatives descend. The Y-chromosome DNA is passed down father-to-son, generation after generation, with few changes over hundreds of years, which enables participants whose haplotypes (sets of unique genetic markers that define an individual or group) match to have confidence they share a male ancestor on their direct paternal line. This facilitates barking up the right trees in further documentary genealogical research! An ad hoc group is underway, with the services of the same excellent Salt Lake City genealogical DNA laboratory that provided the analyses for BYU in the first phase of the Strickland DNA Project (see http://members.aol.com/stricklandquery/dnaproject.htm <http://members.aol.com/stricklandquery/dnaproject.htm> ). The first 11 participants in the current new group will be sent their "kits" (cotton swab, mailing envelope, instructions) in the next day or two. Please contact me promptly for further information. It is not anticipated that this group will remain open for participation for a long period, but that anyone presently interested should move quickly - or trust that a subsequent group will form another year. Thanks! Robert C. Stricklin rstrickl@oregonvos.net ==== STRICKLAND Mailing List ==== Strickland Mailing List - Send all queries to Strickland-L@Rootsweb.com To unsubscribe send email to Strickland-L-request@rootsweb.com Leave subject blank, Put the word unsubscribe in the body of email. Problems email Strickland-Admin@rootsweb.com