Hey Jim-I just joined the project on FTDNA & want to let you know it's OK to list my name, kit # & email. My family names that fall into this group are: Ball, Owen, McNeale, Creel, Dodson, Durham, Hunt, Smoot, Wilson Thanks for organizing this project! Jude Degen -----Original Message----- From: Jim Bartlett <jim4bartletts@verizon.net> To: va-northern-neck <va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 10:34 pm Subject: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] NorthernNeck-VA DNA Group is up and ready! FTDNA did a tweak, and our NorthernNeck-VA Group is now listed. 1. Login to your FTDNA page 2. Under "My Projects" (left side); click on Join Projects 3. Scroll down to the Dual Projects category (Y-DNA and mtDNA), and click on the N link; then scroll down to NorthernNeck-VA and select it. I think that's all there is to it. I've added a description of our project, including the counties that are in our definition. Your FTDNA home page will not change, except you can switch between the projects you belong to. But your page will look the same. So if you've tested at FTDNA and have NN Ancestor, please join our project in addition to the one you already have. I am very particular about privacy issues. So I would like each of you who join to also let me know that it's OK to list, link and use your name, email and DNA Kit# in our discussions. Almost everyone does this nowadays - and it sure helps in communicating and discussing the Trees involved. But it's not a requirement. Thanks. When we get several others to join, I'll look at how the Y-DNA displays, and how the mtDNA displays on our Public web page. I don't think FTDNA has come up with to display Family Finder results on a web page, so that will be up to us. I'll try to come up with something that I can paste into the Results page. It was not my intent to research everyone's Tree and find matches for them - this is your work (I can help, sometimes). And having discussions on this email list will be a big help. I would hope that each DNA participant will also add their NN ancestors to our NN Tree on Ancestry - but this is not mandatory. It will be very convenient for us to note, in that Tree, which are the Common Ancestors (they would have at least two children, a different one being the ancestor of each of the people who share an atDNA segment) and where the shared segment was located. This will be very important as new people take the Family Finder test, and learn they have a match with someone who already has a Common Ancestor on the same segment. This is also extremely valuable to Adoptees, but the NN Tree is mostly too ancient to easily find an ancestral line for them (but, over time, the clues will mount up). I think it will be fairly simple to record matching segments among our group in a spreadsheet. This will be very valuable as we get enough matches to start having three-somes. This is called Triangulation and means all three people share the same Common Ancestor, and you can be pretty positive that the shared segment came from that Common Ancestor. Maybe I can also find a way (maybe a Rootsweb or GenForum Board for the NN) to post some steps for getting the most out of Family Finder - I know it's best to take it in three phases over several years: 1. Get Ready (make a robust Tree, and prepare a standard email to send out; 2. Contact all of your matches, trade info, and determine Common Ancestors; and 3. (after you have 50-100 Common Ancestors), start mapping your genome. Let's roll. Jim Bartlett ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Jude, Interesting list of names. I'd definitely to know more about the Creels--they turn up as neighbors and in one-case a marriage to the Kilbys in Culpeper, but I've never definitively connected them to the ones in the NN. Unfortunately, you have not yet added any of them to the NN tree (sob!). Likewise Dodson and McNeale. Smoot is a Maryland name who like to show up everywhere else while they're at it. There are only 4 Smoots in our tree. A lot could be done with that family. Craig On Oct 19, 2012, at 3:53 AM, Jude Degen wrote: > > Hey Jim-I just joined the project on FTDNA & want to let you know it's OK to list my name, kit # & email. My family names that fall into this group are: > > Ball, Owen, McNeale, Creel, Dodson, Durham, Hunt, Smoot, Wilson > > Thanks for organizing this project! Jude Degen > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Bartlett <jim4bartletts@verizon.net> > To: va-northern-neck <va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 10:34 pm > Subject: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] NorthernNeck-VA DNA Group is up and ready! > > > > FTDNA did a tweak, and our NorthernNeck-VA Group is now listed. > > 1. Login to your FTDNA page > 2. Under "My Projects" (left side); click on Join Projects > 3. Scroll down to the Dual Projects category (Y-DNA and mtDNA), and click on > the N link; then scroll down to NorthernNeck-VA and select it. > > I think that's all there is to it. I've added a description of our project, > including the counties that are in our definition. > > Your FTDNA home page will not change, except you can switch between the > projects you belong to. But your page will look the same. > > So if you've tested at FTDNA and have NN Ancestor, please join our project > in addition to the one you already have. > > I am very particular about privacy issues. So I would like each of you who > join to also let me know that it's OK to list, link and use your name, email > and DNA Kit# in our discussions. Almost everyone does this nowadays - and it > sure helps in communicating and discussing the Trees involved. But it's not > a requirement. Thanks. > > When we get several others to join, I'll look at how the Y-DNA displays, and > how the mtDNA displays on our Public web page. I don't think FTDNA has come > up with to display Family Finder results on a web page, so that will be up > to us. I'll try to come up with something that I can paste into the Results > page. > > It was not my intent to research everyone's Tree and find matches for them - > this is your work (I can help, sometimes). And having discussions on this > email list will be a big help. > > I would hope that each DNA participant will also add their NN ancestors to > our NN Tree on Ancestry - but this is not mandatory. > > It will be very convenient for us to note, in that Tree, which are the > Common Ancestors (they would have at least two children, a different one > being the ancestor of each of the people who share an atDNA segment) and > where the shared segment was located. This will be very important as new > people take the Family Finder test, and learn they have a match with someone > who already has a Common Ancestor on the same segment. This is also > extremely valuable to Adoptees, but the NN Tree is mostly too ancient to > easily find an ancestral line for them (but, over time, the clues will mount > up). > > I think it will be fairly simple to record matching segments among our > group in a spreadsheet. This will be very valuable as we get enough matches > to start having three-somes. This is called Triangulation and means all > three people share the same Common Ancestor, and you can be pretty positive > that the shared segment came from that Common Ancestor. > > Maybe I can also find a way (maybe a Rootsweb or GenForum Board for the NN) > to post some steps for getting the most out of Family Finder - I know it's > best to take it in three phases over several years: 1. Get Ready (make a > robust Tree, and prepare a standard email to send out; 2. Contact all of > your matches, trade info, and determine Common Ancestors; and 3. (after you > have 50-100 Common Ancestors), start mapping your genome. > > Let's roll. > > Jim Bartlett > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-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 VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message