A message similar to the following will appear in a future issue of Piatt Family Photogravure. I present it here for those who may not see it and also to explain the purpose of the General Fund. There is a link to the general fund on the Piatt Public Page at FTDNA.
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It was with great hope and expectation that the Piatt Surname DNA Project began in December 2002. For several years a number of Piatt gentlemen researchers had met for the annual genealogical research conference feeling that surely they
Well, it isn't perfect. The identifying information did not all transfer as I had entered it. And there is now way that I know of yet to highlight the differences in the strings of 25 numbers of results. I am still asking questions of FTDNA. However, the page is good enough to get started.
Please let me know of errors, typos, etc so that I can correct them. I imagine there will be more than one.
The access is at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/piatt
Bookmark it and check back often.
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Laverne
Family Tree DNA sent several notices today when they should have been on the road out of Houston. They certainly are a dedicated crew.
DNA results of a descendant of Pvt Joseph Pyatt, Rev soldier of NC, have been posted are can be seen on the Piatt public page at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/piatt/#surnames
This descendant does not match any Piatt and his haplogroup is I. To be certain of these results we should test another descendant of Pvt Joseph by another of his sons. But should the result
The appearance of the page is improving as I learned that certain characters such as < and ; became stoppers just like a blank space in a URL. With that problem solved I believe the identifications of earliest known ancestors is more acceptable.
Anyone who wants to study the numbers in depth should try to print the public page in order to have a paper page to mark on. Otherwise the numbers tend to run together on the screen.
The haplogroups for participants did not show on the public page spreadsheet.
