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Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA studies
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 08:32:06 EDT
In a message dated 06/06/01 11:36:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:
> 3) The "red" Bollings (my understanding) are those people who are Bollings
> related somehow to Pocahontas. I am not sure if there were any "red" Bolling
> (actual maiden name) females born around 1678 (or even "white" Bolling
> females, for that matter).
If you could find a straight line of female descent, it's quite possible that
mtDNA results would be able to classify the results as Native American versus
European. However, I seem to recall that someone who wrote to me about
Pocahontas said she had no daughters. If you want to pursue that, there is a
POCAHONTAS-L at RootsWeb.
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