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Subject: Re: [DNA] Two questions for Surname Project administrators
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:19:42 EDT
In a message dated 9/1/04 6:00:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:
Family groups will emerge and both prove previously beleived relationships
and suddenly introduce some new cousins. It will send many persons to work
on paper trails.
The primary purpose of the Middleton study is trying to link different
families to the name of a person who was on the U. S. Census for 1790. In my case
that name is Martin Middleton who was in Marion Co., SC in 1790. In addition,
five males with the surname Middleton are listed in Martin's will but the exact
relationship of Martin to those other males is not stated. We assume he was
the father but it is not written down. Five men with the same names were also
living in Monroe County Alabama by 1830.
We have found and tested a male lineage back to three of those Alabama
Middletons and so far the results indicate they have a common male ancestor. Maybe
Martin is their father but we can't prove that with the results we have.
We have also tested 22 other Middleton males who were not believed to be
related -- and in 21 cases the results support that belief. One results is close
enough to be a connection but we do not have any supporting documentation.
However, some of the other 21 are starting to match. In one case they not
only match but by following their migration paths back into history they appear
to converge on a geographic area where documented Middleton's lived in 1790. I
think we will eventually accumulate enough circumstantial evidence to make the
connection. We are using DNA testing to bridge the gap where paper records do
not exist.
Grant Johnston
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