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Subject: Re: [[BURNETT ]] Re: [[BURNETT ]] Peter H. Burnett (was Re: [[BURNETT ] ] for Jo Burnett and others interested in the Burnett DNA group & about Peter H. Burnett
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:28:11 EST
I hate to break it to you, but DNA is not inherited by adoption.
Scientists have also been able to identify DNA that is only passed through
the mother's line.
Bob Burke
In a message dated 3/31/06 4:25:01 PM, writes:
> I am having some issues with this DNA project that has just been started.
> First of all, no matter what name one uses, the same DNA and blood runs in the
> family line no matter if they were adopted or not. Secondly, I just think
> that this is being bias and hurtful to eliminate the off-spring who through no
> fault of their own were already eliminated to start with; and, just don't
> get me started on eliminating the women.
>
> wrote: Joan,
>
> Peter H. Burnett was my great-great-great-great uncle. I'm descended
> from his sister Constantia.
>
> Please contact me directly so we can compare notes.
>
> Bob Burke
> Antioch, CA
>
>
> In a message dated 3/31/06 10:17:39 AM, writes:
>
>
> > Hi, Jo,
> > The Burnett DNA Project was set up just a few days ago. To
> > participate, you have to be a male who inherited the Burnett surname
> > from a BIOLOGICAL Burnett father, grandfather, g-grandfather, and on
> > back. If you have some Burnett males in your family who are willing to
> > participate, please have them sign up. To join the Burnett group, go
> > here:
> > http://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.asp?code=B91864&special=true .
> >
> > DNA can answer lots of questions, but we still have to dig for facts
> > and do the research to make connections. If we have enough
> > participants, the DNA results can definitely eliminate possibilities of
> > descent and can match up people who descend from a common ancestor. The
> > DNA will not tell you the exact ancestor. However, for two people who
> > purchase the brand-new 59-marker test and are matched in the test
> > results, the common ancestor is likely to be back just 3 or 4
> > generations. The lower-marker tests can't pinpoint it that closely.
> > The 59-marker test is the most expensive of the Y-chromosome, but its
> > sensitivity makes it worth the money when there's a match.
> >
> > Mary C. Sparks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not familiar with the DNA project, but since the subject has come
> up,
> > I
> > > wonder whether the DNA could resolve some controversies in the Peter
> > Hardeman
> > > Burnett (first Gov of California) family history.
> > >
> > > I used to try to find answers to two questions:
> > >
> > > (1) How does the Peter H. Burnett line connect to the Burnet ancestry
> in
> > > Scotland? Some claim PHB descended from Bishop Gilbert Burnet's family.
> > Others
> > > dispute this claim. The PHB line has been traced back to ca.1730
> Virginia
> > and
> > > possibly to North Ireland, but no one has succeeded in proving any
> > ancestry
> > > further back nor in tracing the line to its Scottish origins.
> > >
> > > (2) Is the Peter H. Burnett family related to the family of Pres David
> > > Burnet of Texas? Nicholas Perkins Hardeman makes this claim in his book
> > > "Wilderness Calling: The Hardeman Family in the American Westward
> > Movement, 1750-1900,"
> > > which includes chapters on both PHB and David Burnet. David Burnet's
> > > ancestry has been hotly debated on some genealogy boards. I was never
> able
> > to find
> > > the connection between the two families in the United States.
> > >
> > > An extensive DNA study of Burnet/Burnett descendants both here and
> abroad
> > > could prove interesting and informative ... and possibly settle some
> > arguments?
> > >
> > > Cordially,
> > >
> > > Joan Burnett Nichols
> > > San Jose, California
> > > (My great-grandpa was PHB's youngest brother, who came out to San Jose
> in
> > > 1849, arriving just in time to hear his brother had been elected
> Governor
> > of
> > > the new state.)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ----------------
> > >
> > > In a message dated 3/30/2006 12:35:45 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> > > writes:
> > >
> > > Can anyone advise if there is any benefit in Burnets/Burnetts resident
> in
> > > non-US countries joining in the group ?
> > >
> > > My great grandfather emigrated to New Zealand from Lancashire, England
> in
> > > 1883 - his father had emigrated to Lancashire from Dumfriesshire in
> > Scotland in
> > > 1852. I have distant cousins still in England and many in Canada
> > although
> > > most have added a second T to their name (particulary those who crossed
> > the
> > > Atlantic) .
> > >
> > > I believe there may be other Burnet/Burnett connections in USA who
> share
> > the
> > > same Scottish great x3 grandfather. Will the DNA project prove this
> link
> > ?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > John Burnet
> > > Wellington NZ
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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