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    1. Henderson Turner and Christopher Turner
    2. Gail R. Blancett
    3. Beverly, We have both of these lines in our Turner DNA Project. The DNA does not match. I keep telling people, the DNA project works and will save you hours and hours of useless speculation on whether these pesky Turners can be related to another line. Go to our website and click on the word "Results" on the left of the screen. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~turnerdna/ If you use Internet Explorer, you can use the Edit function and then "Search" and put in the number 16042 for Henderson Turner's DNA signature. Then do the same thing and put in number 32001 which is for Robert Turner, father of Christopher. If you don't know how to use the search feature, simply scroll down the list and hunt for the Kit #16042 with oldest ancestor listed as Henderson Turner. It is in a bunch of white ones above our "Teal" group. You will see that Henderson Turner can not be descended from Robert's son Christopher Turner or any other line of Turners who are related to Robert. In fact, as I recall, Christopher Turner's estate is in York Co. records and his children are accounted for. Robert's Kit #32001 is much farther down the chart in a group of green ones. In order to be related, their string of numbers can not vary much. We have tentatively grouped Robert's line with two other ones. One we know for sure was in the same area as Robert in York Co., SC and the three markers that they differ on function together so they are very close. In this case, the information from standard genealogical research putting them in the same locality at the same time period suggests they are potentially related. We are constantly adding new members to document more lines. We particularly hope to have people join who can document their lines back to early ancestors in various locations because not only will it help them know what other lines in the area they might be related to, it will definitely show which ones they cannot be related to. Also, it will help other researchers who are simply at that brick wall trying to find where in say SC their Turner is from when he shows up on the 1850 Census in another state showing a birth in SC. That happened so often. South Carolina was a major migration route to populate the southwest. Our project has as it focus Turners who are believed to have their roots in the mid-Atlantic region of the American Colonies--primarily MD, VA, PA--and who then followed the Southern migration trail down through the Carolinas and then westward or those that went westward toward KY, or into TN etc. We have documented several immigrants into South Carolina. We limit the focus because that insures that those who participate are most apt to be helped. My role is strictly on a volunteer basis and I don't get a penny for getting people to join. I firmly believe that this works and will eventually help so many Turner researchers. We have one major exception to that focus and that is the line of Humphrey Turner of Scituate, MA. We specifically sought out a descendant of that line whose family stayed in New Enland. He is in the project because one branch of the Humphrey Turner line did emigrate to the VA/NC border area and there are bound to be some descendants floating around somewhere trying to find their connection. The tests will not prove who the parents or father of a particular person is. It will show you a group of Turners to which you can belong and probably as importantly can show you which group you CAN NOT be related to. In this search, that will save you hours and probably years of wasted time going down the wrong trail. Hope this will help and save you time wondering if your Henderson is a descendant of Christopher Turner, son of Robert Turner of York Co., SC. Gail R. Blancett Administrator Turner DNA Project

    04/25/2005 03:33:17