Steve: As you know, I am from the Highland County,Va area Wilsons. I am trying to find a male ancestor that I will pay for his tests. I am excited about these tests results. The last I found was in Pineville, WV. and died without children or descendants! Not one of the children married. He was a Justice of the Peace and the two sisters worked for the board of education, so they weren't stuck in the mountains with an excuse that they never met anyone. My line had 1 son, who drowned in Mobile Bay in 1910 and 4 girls that don't count as DNA participants. Onward we go. Keep up the good work. Pat Killian > > From: "Steven J. Zuraff" <sjz1@earthlink.net> > Date: 2003/02/04 Tue PM 10:31:31 EST > To: WILSON-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WILSON-L] DNA Project > > Correction, George, my e-mail address is sjz1@earthlink.net. > We now have results for 16 of our 17 participants in the Wilson DNA project. The 17th should be getting his results back this month. He's our first European participant. He lives in Scotland. That means he has an all Scottish ancestry. It will be interesting to see what his results are. > The biggest surprise so far is the amount of variation in the Y-chromosome markers among our participants. Recall that we analyze each participant's Y-chromosome at 12 or 25 specific markers on the chromosome. (So far all our participants have opted for the 25 marker test which has better resolving power than the 12 marker test.) As a rule of thumb, if two individuals match at 24 or 25 of the markers analyzed, then they probably have a common Wilson ancestor within a genealogically measurable time frame (although that could be as far back as 40 generations). Sometimes a match at 23 of 25 is also indicative of a relationship. Under certain circumstances, a match of 22 of 25 markers might be indicative, too. But a match for any number less than 22 of 25 suggests that there is no common ancestor. That appears the case for most of our participants. Except for a group of three who are known to be distantly related and another group of two who are second cousins, all our partici! pa! > nts have fairly unique Y-chromosomes. This suggests that the Wilson name has multiple independent origins. Some might be Scottish or Scotch-Irish. Some might be English. Some may have had ancestors who merely adopted the name Wilson. Most of our participants don't know where their immigrant Wilson ancestor came from. That makes it hard to draw conclusions. Presumably nearly all the Wilsons in the Shenandoah Valley--and especially those in Augusta County, VA--in the mid 1700s were Scottish or Scotch-Irish. I would like to see more participants with known ancestors from that area to see if any trends stand out. We'll compare these with our Scottish participant. But if your Wilson ancestor is not from that area, don't let that discourage from participating. > > Steve Zuraff > Wilson DNA Project Manager > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "George Wilson" <gwwilson@webtv.net> > To: <WILSON-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:40 PM > Subject: Re: [WILSON-L] DNA Project > > > > Contact Steven J Zuraff at > > sjz@earthlink.net for the Wilson DNA project. He will give you prices > > and other particulars about the project. > > The more Wilsons who participate the better it will be. There are a lot > > of lines but eventually we will find a match. > > George > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== WILSON Mailing List ==== > > Be sure and check out www.rootsweb.com > > Archives of this list and other list. > > > > > > > ==== WILSON Mailing List ==== > Please change subject line when changing the thread. > >

I keep thinking about you. I'd like to know which branch you come from. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: <pkcb113@bellsouth.net> To: <WILSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:17 AM Subject: Re: Re: [WILSON-L] DNA Project > Steve: > > As you know, I am from the Highland County,Va area Wilsons. I am trying to find a male ancestor that I will pay for his tests. I am excited about these tests results. The last I found was in Pineville, WV. and died without children or descendants! Not one of the children married. He was a Justice of the Peace and the two sisters worked for the board of education, so they weren't stuck in the mountains with an excuse that they never met anyone. My line had 1 son, who drowned in Mobile Bay in 1910 and 4 girls that don't count as DNA participants. Onward we go. > > Keep up the good work. > > Pat Killian > > > > > From: "Steven J. Zuraff" <sjz1@earthlink.net> > > Date: 2003/02/04 Tue PM 10:31:31 EST > > To: WILSON-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [WILSON-L] DNA Project > > > > Correction, George, my e-mail address is sjz1@earthlink.net. > > We now have results for 16 of our 17 participants in the Wilson DNA project. The 17th should be getting his results back this month. He's our first European participant. He lives in Scotland. That means he has an all Scottish ancestry. It will be interesting to see what his results are. > > The biggest surprise so far is the amount of variation in the Y-chromosome markers among our participants. Recall that we analyze each participant's Y-chromosome at 12 or 25 specific markers on the chromosome. (So far all our participants have opted for the 25 marker test which has better resolving power than the 12 marker test.) As a rule of thumb, if two individuals match at 24 or 25 of the markers analyzed, then they probably have a common Wilson ancestor within a genealogically measurable time frame (although that could be as far back as 40 generations). Sometimes a match at 23 of 25 is also indicative of a relationship. Under certain circumstances, a match of 22 of 25 markers might be indicative, too. But a match for any number less than 22 of 25 suggests that there is no common ancestor. That appears the case for most of our participants. Except for a group of three who are known to be distantly related and another group of two who are second cousins, all our partici! > pa! > > nts have fairly unique Y-chromosomes. This suggests that the Wilson name has multiple independent origins. Some might be Scottish or Scotch-Irish. Some might be English. Some may have had ancestors who merely adopted the name Wilson. Most of our participants don't know where their immigrant Wilson ancestor came from. That makes it hard to draw conclusions. Presumably nearly all the Wilsons in the Shenandoah Valley--and especially those in Augusta County, VA--in the mid 1700s were Scottish or Scotch-Irish. I would like to see more participants with known ancestors from that area to see if any trends stand out. We'll compare these with our Scottish participant. But if your Wilson ancestor is not from that area, don't let that discourage from participating. > > > > Steve Zuraff > > Wilson DNA Project Manager > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "George Wilson" <gwwilson@webtv.net> > > To: <WILSON-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:40 PM > > Subject: Re: [WILSON-L] DNA Project > > > > > > > Contact Steven J Zuraff at > > > sjz@earthlink.net for the Wilson DNA project. He will give you prices > > > and other particulars about the project. > > > The more Wilsons who participate the better it will be. There are a lot > > > of lines but eventually we will find a match. > > > George > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== WILSON Mailing List ==== > > > Be sure and check out www.rootsweb.com > > > Archives of this list and other list. > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== WILSON Mailing List ==== > > Please change subject line when changing the thread. > > > > > > > ==== WILSON Mailing List ==== > Wilson list home pages . > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nadine/index.html > P;ease check them out. > >