I have my sample ready to mail tomorrow since today is a holiday. I wish there were a Marchant DNA study going on. The Marchant's must have had more boys because there are a ton of males with the Marchant name. Maybe the Marchant's could get past 1766. Anyway, I will let you know when I get the code so you can pass it to a male. Mary Beth Marchant

If you want to find out if there is a DNA sample on file at Sorenson for a particular Surname try this. Go to http://smgf.org Click on "Search" at the right bottom of the page Click on "Search the Y-Chromosome data base" at the bottom of the next page (here is where you will eventually find the mtDNA data base) The next page should default to "Relative Genetics (after 29 June 2004). This is when they last changed their testing nomenclature. All the Wells samples now match this nomenclature. Check "Use Demonstration values instead" - it really does not matter in this case. At the bottom of the page select "Sort by surname (then by genetic match)" and enter the surname you are interested in. The page returned will show every sample currently in place of the 9,000 y-chromosome samples in the database. They will be doing another update sometime this month. They will make another update in March and quarterly. Sometime this year the mtDNA data should be in place. There are, in fact, two Marcharant samples in the database that appear to match each other. If you click on the little family tree symbol at the left of the sample row you can see a bit on the genealogy for the sample. The first starts with an Arthur Marchant b: 1881 Peoa, Summit Co., Utah and links up to a Richard Marchant b: abt 1620 in Of Stogursey, Somerset, England. This is obviously an LDS family that immigrated directly to Utah after the mid 1800s. The second is obviously from the exact same family - two brothers, a father and son or something like that. You could probably track this family down you searching FamilySearch.org for the ancestry and look to the submitter(s). There are also two Merchant entries that probably are quite different in values. One is for a Benjamin Merchant b: 14 Jun 1877 DeRuyter, New York with a father of the same name. The other is a Harry Edwards Merchant b: 22 Jul 1896 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. But it appears this was one of those non-paternal events or an adoption where they have actually identified when it happened. The father is shown as Daniel M. Edwards b: 26 Dec 1880 Woonsocket and his mother Ethel Harper b: 23 Aug 1879 Woonsocket. Given the ages (15 and 16 at conception) Harry was likely given up for adoption. The only way to find out if your Marchant boys match any of these or the samples that will come on-line over time is to get one of them tested and wait. At the cost of Free, how can you lose? At 07:01 AM 1/16/2006, Mbmjlm22@aol.com wrote: >I have my sample ready to mail tomorrow since today is a holiday. I wish >there were a Marchant DNA study going on. The Marchant's must have had more >boys because there are a ton of males with the Marchant name. Maybe the >Marchant's could get past 1766. Anyway, I will let you know when I >get the code so >you can pass it to a male. Mary Beth Marchant > > >==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > Don't Forget > The Wells Family Research Association > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wellsfam/wfrahome.html Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <OrinWells@wells.org> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb