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Subject: [BRASWELL] Re: Bracewell/Braswell DNA
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 07:38:01 -0600 (CST)
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>Dear Russell,

Thank you for your interest in our Braswell DNA Study Group at
FamilyTree DNA, Houston.

One's descent from the ancient Bracewell family of Yorkshire by means
of DNA can theoretically be proved all the way back to the Doomsday
Book of 1087 A.D. by matching the "Bracewell haplotype" or genetic
signature. What's that? It's a string of gene test scores that are
unique to our family. How was our haplotype found? By comparing the
scores of Gary Bracewell of Henderson, Nevada, with those of the
majority ("Carey/Britt") group already in the testing program. They
matched exactly. Why Gary Bracewell? Because Gary is a descendant of
an English Bracewell family that emigrated from Colne, England,to the
Midwest in 1850, two hundred years after our Rev. ROBERT BRACEWELL
sailed from London to Virginia. Colne is only a few miles from our
ancient family home, Bracewell Parish. Our first common ancestor with
Gary could not have lived later than the 1400's. It is a 99.9%
probability that we and Gary are descended from a common Bracewell
ancestry.

The cheaper $99 test (12-marker test) at FTDNA can prove one's
Bracewell descent. We found out early that is something that cannot be
taken for granted--there was only one match ("Carey/Britt") among the
first six Bracewells tested. Unrecorded adoptions of both boy babies
and the Bracewell name probably account for many non-matches.

But along with my co-administrator, Rev. Keith Braswell, I recommend
the full 25-marker test (Y-DNAPlus, $169) because it can show genetic
markers for specific branches of your family and also the timeframe
(usually +/-seven generations) back to the first common ancestor in
that branch.

The Braswell Study Group is a work in progress and all interested
participants are welcome--even those with sound-alike names but
different origins because we already know not all Southern Braswells
descend from Rev. Bracewell of Isle of Wight, Virginia.

The test is simple, private. and painless and requires only a little
cash but a lot of courage to put one's research to the test.

The ideal testing candidates for the Texas Bracewells would be the two
oldest males from two widely separated branches who have good paper
evidence of their ancestry. Older is better because its closer to the
source, less likely to contain recent mutations. Widely separated is
needed for the second to validate the first should it turn out that the
Georgia Bracewells have some specific genetic marker within the
Bracewell
haplotype. There's no need to test everybody. These two should do.

Interested Bracewell men should use the group join-up code to get the
group rates.

Carey Bracewell,
Family Coordinator, Braswell Group, FTDMA





I am the webmaster and archive for the Texas Bracewell descendents. A
> member of the family has expressed interest in the DNA testing and I would
> like to find out some more information.
>
> How fare back in history will the test confirm a descendant?
> example: I am a direct descendant of Rev. Robert. What connections could
> the test confirm in my case.
>
> Thanks
> Russell Bracewell
> Archivist for the Joseph Marion Bracewell Family
> www.bracewellfamily.com
>
> (You may link to our site as you see fit. I currently have over 200
> documents on the Bracewell Family Online.)

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