Thank you Jeff. I am happy to know FTDNA is the testing service for Woodall - FTDNA is located here in Houston, I believe. My youngest Woodall ancestor is my GGGrandmother Sarah Woodall NeSmith, and I know descendants of several of her siblings. I will contact FTDNA for further information. I'm sure all of us would appreciate your keeping us advised of any further results of testing. Best regards, Helen Dearing ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Woodall To: woodall@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:14 PM Subject: Re: [WOODALL] DNA testing and Woodall/WOOD OWL/SUMPTER Theory Thank you Helen. For those who are interested I looked on FTDNA which we use with the WOODALL DNA Project and found this information from them concerning the mtDNA: Family Tree DNA is the pioneer and the world's largest DNA company in the new field of genetic genealogy.If you are looking for that long lost relative, or if you feel that some day, someone may use a DNA repository to look for long lost relatives, you should consider doing this simple DNA test.Your ancestors left clues in your DNA that can determine your deep ancestral origins as well as help you find those long lost relatives. By comparing your results to our databases - the largest of their kind in the world - we could give you clues about your ancestry. Unlock your ancestral origins with DNA testing.mtDNA: By testing the mtDNA, males and females can determine the origin of their maternal line. Note that the mtDNA strictly checks the maternal line, with no influence of any males along that line. Both males and females receive the mtDNA from the mother. The Maternal DNA test is available for both males and females, to uncover information about your mother, and her female ancestors.A single test allows you to verify:- if 2 females are possibly related- your suggested geographic origin- your maternal deep ancestral ethnic origin Price: $129 https://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=U22989&special=true > From: hdearing@hal-pc.org> To: woodall@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:58:20 -0600> Subject: Re: [WOODALL] DNA testing and Woodall/WOOD OWL/SUMPTER Theory> > Thank you, Jeff. I appreciate your sharing this information with us. I am one of those who have believed my ancestral Woodalls included a Native American, probably Cherokee or Creek, because of a family belief, but my oldest Woodall ancestor known to me is Zephaniah Harvey Woodall. Although there are several male Woodall descendants of Zephaniah living, none are known to me. I don't understand about the mitochondrial DNA; when I looked into this testing several years ago, the mother-to-mother line was very difficult and expensive and not terribly accurate. I'll contact the DNA research people here in Houston for more info. Again, thank you for sharing.> > Helen Dearing > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeff Woodall > To: WOODALL-L > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 7:03 PM> Subject: [WOODALL] DNA testing and Woodall/WOOD OWL/SUMPTER Theory> > > > Recent DNA test results show that Rebecca Jane Woodall (named Rebecca Jane "WOOD OWL" by a story on the internet etc.) did not have Indian blood on either her female line or her male line!Rebecca Woodall's Paternal (father's line) is Family Group 1 on the Woodall DNA Project which is Haplogroup R1b1. Descendants of Rebecca Woodall’s male line have taken the test . We have 4 Woodall males who descend through Rebecca Woodall’s brothers who have taken the Male DNA test and they are Haplogroup R1b1, including myself. ;) No Indian Blood! (Haplogroup R1b1 is the most common haplogroup in European populations. It is believed to have expanded throughout Europe as humans re-colonized after the last glacial maximum 10-12 thousand years ago. This lineage is also the haplogroup containing the Atlantic modal haplotype.)Rebecca Woodall’s Maternal (mother’s line) was not Indian. Deborah Cooper recently stated on the Woodall forum of genforum, “The maternal (mitochondrial dna) test is back. It is the lineage from mother to mother to mother etc. Rebecca Jane Woodall's mother is NOT Indian. We belong to the Hapalogroup H. There are no Native Americans in this group. The original Hapalogroup H started in Saudia Arabia, then spread to the Ukraine, and finally branching off into the British Isles, Spain, and Italy. Dan Troxell's story of Rebecca being full blooded Cherokee is false.”THIS IS REBECCA WOODALL’s FAMILY! Rebecca Jane Woodall (b. abt 1809 KY) is the daughter of Wm Woodall b. 1768 in Goochland Co.,Virginia & his wife Sara Thommasen. Her brothers include Stephen Woodall b. 1805 KY (m. Ann Sumpter in Wayne County in 1827. Ann Sumpter is Joseph Sumpter’s brother, by the way… thus making their children double cousins!), James Woodall B. 1820, and a William Woodall b. abt 1814 KY. Rebecca Woodall m. Joseph Sumpter in 1831 Wayne Co. KY. Please go to this link and you will learn more about Rebecca’s family.http://home.cfl.rr.com/woodalldnaClick on Oldest Ancestors, then you will be able to view Rebecca Woodall's family in family group 1.An interesting fact about these siblings: Stephen Woodall, James Woodall & Rebecca Woodall Sumpter all had daughters by the name of “Marietta”.There is NO INDIAN BLOOD from Rebecca Woodall’s father or mother. Rebecca Woodall was not Indian, although Dan Troxell would like people to believe his unsubstantiated stories placed online and in a Kentucky publication some years ago.I guess this clears up the "Wood Owl" theory. Without DNA testing where would we be with our research?Regards,Jeff Woodall> _________________________________________________________________> Watch “Cause Effect,” a show about real people making a real difference.> http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WOODALL-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 WOODALL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Watch “Cause Effect,” a show about real people making a real difference. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WOODALL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message