A couplefew comments. 1. You do not want to waste the money on the 12 marker test, since it's too common among the population. Do the 25. 2. Sometimes if necessary, one can "sponsor" a participant that can't really afford the test. 3. The project probably needs a coordinator for the surname group, or at least that's what I've seen done on other surname DNA projects. A web page, perhaps freepage at rootsweb, to publish results. Someone to set standards of one or another sort, say of having a genealogy established back to some cutoff date minimum. Often it's 1800. The coordinator may even be the one to order the test so that results are returned to him/her AND the test participant. Volunteer? ( not me) (I have no known male Thomas anyway) Kaye in Texas > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:53:29 -0400 > From: "Bonnie Thomas Chaffin" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [THOMAS] DNA project > > I'm excited that we seem to have a good number of people interested in the > DNA project. I have written to Bennett Greenspan at FamilyTreeDNA for the > answer to some of our questions. He was their representative who helped with > the project for another of my family names. > > Once I have more information, I will post it to the list. The recent test > that I did on my CRISP family was $101.00 for the 12-marker test and I > believe we were quoted $169 + mailing costs for the 25-marker test. > > In the meantime, checkout www.familytreedna.com for answers to other > questions. > > I have started a list of names of those willing to participate.... let us > know who you are if interested. Also, I'd be happy to coordinate this. > Maybe Bruce Bennett will give me some advice/assistance in setting up a site > such as the one he has for his Bennett family??? > > Bonnie Thomas Chaffin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

I am a direct male descendant of John Thomas, Sr. b. 1710, Henrico County, VA and Winifred Dameron. I would be interested in participating if it might help anyone else. K Powell wrote: > A couplefew comments. > > 1. You do not want to waste the money on the 12 marker test, since it's too > common among the population. Do the 25. > > 2. Sometimes if necessary, one can "sponsor" a participant that can't really > afford the test. > > 3. The project probably needs a coordinator for the surname group, or at least > that's what I've seen done on other surname DNA projects. A web page, perhaps > freepage at rootsweb, to publish results. Someone to set standards of one or > another sort, say of having a genealogy established back to some cutoff date > minimum. Often it's 1800. The coordinator may even be the one to order the test > so that results are returned to him/her AND the test participant. Volunteer? ( > > not me) (I have no known male Thomas anyway) > > Kaye in Texas > > > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:53:29 -0400 > > From: "Bonnie Thomas Chaffin" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [THOMAS] DNA project > > > > I'm excited that we seem to have a good number of people interested in the > > DNA project. I have written to Bennett Greenspan at FamilyTreeDNA for the > > answer to some of our questions. He was their representative who helped with > > the project for another of my family names. > > > > Once I have more information, I will post it to the list. The recent test > > that I did on my CRISP family was $101.00 for the 12-marker test and I > > believe we were quoted $169 + mailing costs for the 25-marker test. > > > > In the meantime, checkout www.familytreedna.com for answers to other > > questions. > > > > I have started a list of names of those willing to participate.... let us > > know who you are if interested. Also, I'd be happy to coordinate this. > > Maybe Bruce Bennett will give me some advice/assistance in setting up a site > > such as the one he has for his Bennett family??? > > > > Bonnie Thomas Chaffin > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > ==== THOMAS Mailing List ==== > Need list assistance? Please contact: [email protected] > List Adm for THOMAS-L and THOMAS-D -- "Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible some people will ever read". If you can't explain it to your mother or grandmother, don't do it. MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA http://home.pacbell.net/wthomas1/ Wayne <><

I am a little confused about what the project will prove, other than who in this generation is related to who. There isn't any DNA available for our elusive ancestors to sort out which line we are from. What is it that we end up with, a confirmation that Joe Thomas in Arkansas is descended from the same Thomas line as John Thomas in NC? -----Original Message----- From: K Powell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [THOMAS] Re: DNA genealogy project A couplefew comments. 1. You do not want to waste the money on the 12 marker test, since it's too common among the population. Do the 25. 2. Sometimes if necessary, one can "sponsor" a participant that can't really afford the test. 3. The project probably needs a coordinator for the surname group, or at least that's what I've seen done on other surname DNA projects. A web page, perhaps freepage at rootsweb, to publish results. Someone to set standards of one or another sort, say of having a genealogy established back to some cutoff date minimum. Often it's 1800. The coordinator may even be the one to order the test so that results are returned to him/her AND the test participant. Volunteer? ( not me) (I have no known male Thomas anyway) Kaye in Texas > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:53:29 -0400 > From: "Bonnie Thomas Chaffin" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [THOMAS] DNA project > > I'm excited that we seem to have a good number of people interested in the > DNA project. I have written to Bennett Greenspan at FamilyTreeDNA for the > answer to some of our questions. He was their representative who helped with > the project for another of my family names. > > Once I have more information, I will post it to the list. The recent test > that I did on my CRISP family was $101.00 for the 12-marker test and I > believe we were quoted $169 + mailing costs for the 25-marker test. > > In the meantime, checkout www.familytreedna.com for answers to other > questions. > > I have started a list of names of those willing to participate.... let us > know who you are if interested. Also, I'd be happy to coordinate this. > Maybe Bruce Bennett will give me some advice/assistance in setting up a site > such as the one he has for his Bennett family??? > > Bonnie Thomas Chaffin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ==== THOMAS Mailing List ==== Need list assistance? Please contact: [email protected] List Adm for THOMAS-L and THOMAS-D