My Brazwell group has their's here http://www.familytreedna.com/Default.aspx?c=1 Unfortunately, I don't have a living male Brazzil to try out. Gina Heffernan Rusk Co, Texas ________________________________ From: Robin Inge <wolfhuntress2002@yahoo.com> To: McStumped@suddenlink.net; txgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:14:03 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] I thought everyone would find this interesting... Is it very expensive? Robin R Inge "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away" ________________________________ From: Elaine <McStumped@suddenlink.net> To: txgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:08:48 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] I thought everyone would find this interesting... FYI, 3 cousins and I went together and have gone the DNA route. Now we sit back and wait for others to do the same and see if we can find a match. We have high hopes of finally finding family for our Henry McCoy who "appeared" in Ga in 1803. I think DNA will break down brick walls for many......we just hope we are one of the many. Elaine Kimberly Carrillo wrote: > <http://www.newsobserver.com/news/health_science/story/1454594.html> > http://www.newsobserver.com/news/health_science/story/1454594.html > > > DNA reveals story of dad's disappearance > > > Genes are genealogy's new frontier > > > John Smithers of Raleigh had spent more than six decades looking for clues > about the father who abandoned him, his sister and their mother when he was > just a baby. The barrel-chested, brash-talking Smithers had something he > wanted to give his old man: a fist in the nose. > > At 82, he had about given up on ever learning what happened to James William > Smithers. He had long suspected his father got in trouble with the law and > fled abroad. Decades ago, it was easy enough to disappear, and Smithers' > father had seemingly vanished into thin air. > > On the other side of the world, Lucinda Gray had always wondered what her > father's life was like before he moved mysteriously from the United States > to Australia. She had spent years just trying to find out his real name. > > In mid-December, Smithers and Gray learned their elusive fathers were one > and the same. > > After years of poring over records online and in person, across continents > and oceans, it took only a DNA sample from a simple cheek scrape to bring > the two branches of the family together. > > "I was skeptical at first," said Smithers, a retired insurance company > investigator. "But when I talked to my sister, I knew this is what I'd been > hoping for my whole life." > > The case shows what a "new frontier" DNA has become in genealogical > research, said Debbi Blake, a North Carolina state archivist. > > DNA has been in genealogical use since 2000, according to Thomas Shawker, a > radiologist with the National Institutes of Health who has become a > nationally renowned expert on the use of the latest science in genealogy. > Its use since then among professional genealogists and family historians has > mushroomed. > > "Everywhere I go, I am asked to lecture on DNA," he said, "and everywhere I > go, the lectures are packed." > > But the impact of DNA hasn't been as significant as the Internet, which > transformed genealogical research by making records from distant places > available at the click of a mouse. Some of the genealogy search sites charge > a fee, though many of the raw birth, death, marriage and property records > are available free online. > > DNA testing has a fairly hefty price tag -- from $99 to well over $700, > depending on the type of DNA and the level of research. Until recently, its > application has been limited, said Terry Moore, a professional genealogist > in Raleigh. Typically, it's used to identify which branch of the family tree > to climb -- or which region or nation to zero in on. > > "Usually, DNA helps people who have gone through all the records and traced > their ancestors back to the 1400s and are stuck," she said. > > It is, Moore stressed, simply another tool in the genealogist's box. "This > is not CSI," she said. "DNA will not do the work for you. But it can bridge > gaps in history." > > As more people who share a surname start their own registries, DNA's role is > expanding into the modern age -- uniting living relatives. The Smithers-Gray > case is a perfect example. > > Real name unknown > > Like her half-brother John Smithers, Lucinda Gray had been trying to > investigate her father's veiled history for many years. > > Her dad, John Henderson Gray, who died in 1970, had been a fine father to > her and her four siblings, and a good husband to their mother. But even > their mother didn't know his true identity. > > He had moved from the United States to Australia in 1926; in 1944, at age > 51, he had married their mother, Betty, then 22. It was well known that Gray > had changed his name when he moved down under. "Our mother always assumed > he'd changed his identity because of some strife," Lucinda Gray said. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- I'd rather look for dead people than have them look for me.... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message