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From: "Joy King" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] 12 / 12 Y-DNA Matches - Stewart, Panther - Yates, et al.
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 23:51:29 -0500
References: <20040102020001.29411.qmail@web41214.mail.yahoo.com>


This may answer the question:
http://www.geocities.com/melungeon_movement/melungeonlastlost.html

Joy

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Faux" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 9:00 PM
Subject: [DNA] 12 / 12 Y-DNA Matches - Stewart, Panther - Yates, et al.


> Beth and others:
>
> For over a year now we have all been warned not to put any stock in a 12 /
12 match unless the surnames match. Do you have information which would
suggest you should ignore this advice from FTDNA and others?
>
> I am unclear as to why you should be so interested in the Rodrigues -
Stewart match. As you know your colleague Dr. Panther - Yates matches 12 /
12 with quite a few Stewarts and a Rodriques. The number of matches to a
very wide variety of surnames is a phenomenal 139 in total! Obviously this
is a very common haplotype and unless you have a high resolution match what
is the point of contacting anyone in this group? My ancestors came from
England and I match a Guerra, and my cousin whose ancestors came from
Germany matches a Garcia. This is very common with an R1b haplotype and does
not indicate any meaningful connection other than thousands of years ago.
Just curious as to your reasoning.
>
> David F.
>
> wrote:
> Hi Ana and Listers,
> Thanks so much for the DNA results. Two of my Appalachian lines
> Caldwell/Yates/Ramey/Stewart and Houston are 12/12 matches with two
Rodriqueses from
> Puerto Rico; they are R1b and I've been corresponding with both of them.
Beth


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