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From: Nan & George Wolf <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Discussion of surname DNA projects not universally welcomed by list...
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 02:00:43 -0400


Richard wrote:
>This is basically what happened in the Stidham study. A VERY large
chunk of Stidhams in America descend from Samuel Stidham, the person at
the top of the yellow box in the pedigree chart at:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tstiddem/Pages/pedigree.html
Most of those who have participated from that line discard the results
as somehow flawed. Several potential participants for our study, upon
learning that they descend from this individual, decline to proceed
with testing.<

Richard:
I am very new at this - we are just starting the project for the Hinds
surname. If I have it correctly in my mind- the 12 marker can determine
if there is a common ancestor from way, way back several hundreds of years
- possibly thousands of years. The 25 marker might be possibly be able to
divide those descendants from that common ancestor into tributaries. i.e.
the Hinds in early Salem, MA might have the same common ancestor as the
early Hinds in VA according to the 12 marker test - but the 25 marker test
might be able to determine that the common ancestor is not the Salem Hinds
as some people think but that the Salem and VA lines are on two different
tributaries of that common ancestor and the VA line is not connected to the
common ancestor through the Salem line but is on a line of its own.
How was your project able to zero in on that one man - knowing that he
was the common ancestor? Have all 25 markers matched from all his known
descendants?

Regards
Nan Wolf
Administrator Hinds Surname DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA.com


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