Dear Logan County & Fauquier County Genealogist, A few may remember that my Father's ancestor William Burgess died in 1778 in Bedford County, Virginia. My DNA is from the above William Burgess from Bedford County. My mother's Burgess ancestor William Burgess died in 1712 in Richmond County, Virginia. Michael Burgess's DNA is from Richmond County. Michael Burgess and I have been working for many years trying to determine the parents of both William Burgess ancestors with veyr little apparent success. I have also indicated to both lists that we have been involved with the www.familytreedna.com project. The results came in yesterday. Michael Burgess author of The House of Burgesses called last night to tell me that we have a match. Hallelujah! Every Burgess in Burgess, Mullins, Browning, Brown and Allied families and every Burgess in The House of Burgesses are related. This means that our research is accurate. Would love to have some other distant Burgess cousins join us in this project for further confirmation. That means my father and mother were cousins. We cannot prove with research the connection but have a 99.9% DNA connection. Here is the note from familytreedna You have a match! An exact match has been found between you and another person(s) in the Family Tree DNA database. You and the other person(s) have matched in all loci, which means that there is a 99.9% likelihood that you have a common ancestor. There is a 50% likelihood that the common ancestor is within the last 14.5 generations and 90% within the last 48 generations. If you and your match share a "prior" item of knowledge, such as a common surname, then a recent (within 14.5 generations) common ancestor is fairly likely. If not, then the common ancestor is probably closer to the 48 generations. Please remember to add your results to www.Ysearch.org, the FTDNA sponsored public database. On the left side of your personal page you will see an explanation and a link for the upload. The link below will take you to your Family Tree DNA Login. From there you can see a list of your matches. Newer matches will be at the top of the list. Additional emails will be sent to you as we find new matches between you and your "genetic cousins." Family Tree DNA Folks this is real exciting news! Jim Burgess & Michael Burgess;

Jim - please add my congratulations, too. My ancestor, Thomas BARTLETT c1730-1806 was in Fauquier Co, VA 1768-1785 (before moving west to Harrison Co, VA). By the weight of much circumstantial evidence we determined he was the son of Thomas BARTLETT, Sr c1705-1783 of Richmond Co, VA. We started a familytreedna project two years ago, and now have DNA matches from my ancestor and another son of the Thomas BARTLETT of Richmond Co (a John BARTLETT who became John BARTLEY in Culpeper Co, VA (c1750-1791) before moving to Fluvanna Co, VA) - our BARTLETT DNA Project has proved several lines now, and we've now gotten links to BARTLEYs, BERKLEYs (from Loudoun Co) and BARCLIFTs... just to show how the spelling varied in those times. Jim Bartlett; Bethesda, MD [new] -----Original Message----- From: Jim Burgess [mailto:jim@promobiz.biz] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:42 AM To: VAFAUQUI-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [VAFAUQUI] Great DNA News on the Burgess Family! Dear Logan County & Fauquier County Genealogist, A few may remember that my Father's ancestor William Burgess died in 1778 in Bedford County, Virginia. My DNA is from the above William Burgess from Bedford County. My mother's Burgess ancestor William Burgess died in 1712 in Richmond County, Virginia. Michael Burgess's DNA is from Richmond County. Michael Burgess and I have been working for many years trying to determine the parents of both William Burgess ancestors with veyr little apparent success. I have also indicated to both lists that we have been involved with the www.familytreedna.com project. The results came in yesterday. Michael Burgess author of The House of Burgesses called last night to tell me that we have a match. Hallelujah! Every Burgess in Burgess, Mullins, Browning, Brown and Allied families and every Burgess in The House of Burgesses are related. This means that our research is accurate. Would love to have some other distant Burgess cousins join us in this project for further confirmation. That means my father and mother were cousins. We cannot prove with research the connection but have a 99.9% DNA connection. Here is the note from familytreedna You have a match! An exact match has been found between you and another person(s) in the Family Tree DNA database. You and the other person(s) have matched in all loci, which means that there is a 99.9% likelihood that you have a common ancestor. There is a 50% likelihood that the common ancestor is within the last 14.5 generations and 90% within the last 48 generations. If you and your match share a "prior" item of knowledge, such as a common surname, then a recent (within 14.5 generations) common ancestor is fairly likely. If not, then the common ancestor is probably closer to the 48 generations. Please remember to add your results to www.Ysearch.org, the FTDNA sponsored public database. On the left side of your personal page you will see an explanation and a link for the upload. The link below will take you to your Family Tree DNA Login. From there you can see a list of your matches. Newer matches will be at the top of the list. Additional emails will be sent to you as we find new matches between you and your "genetic cousins." Family Tree DNA Folks this is real exciting news! Jim Burgess & Michael Burgess; ==== VAFAUQUI Mailing List ==== Visit the Fauquier County USGenWeb Home Page! http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafauqui/fqva.htm Be sure to bookmark it!!!