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From: "gareth.henson" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Recruiting of yDNA Participants
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:15:38 +0100
References: <LPBBIOAAMGMFKIJPLJBCEEHDDJAA.dclwilson@earthlink.net>


My wife has SHAKESPEAR(E) ancestors, although we have no contact with any
living relatives with that surname.
You are right, it is very rare, it has all the marks of a single origin
surname (in Warwickshire, England, which is where my wife is from).
So - any potential SHAKESPEARE projects out there, please????
There is now at last a HENSON/HANSON project, if anyone knows someone who
knows someone who knows a relative of the late Jim Henson (creator of the
Muppets etc.) please could they pass the message along and get them to join!

Gareth


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Wilson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 11:59 PM
Subject: RE: [DNA] Recruiting of yDNA Participants


> The Wilson surname project got above four dozen participants without
> aggressive outreach effort, as far as I know. I came on as co-coordinator
> after it had been in existence for well over a year. The project was
> discussed on the WILSON-L list at RootsWeb, which is fortunately not
hostile
> to the subject matter. I believe many people signed up after hearing about
> it on that list. A handful of people who ordered kits did not return them.
> Most, however, did.
>
> We have had mostly "walk-ins" in the course of 2004. Several Wilsons found
> us and joined the project at the rate of one every month or so. One or two
> (I forget which) Wilsons ordered a test without going through the surname
> project. We got him/them enrolled and secured the discount test price
> retroactively. On another occasion I found a Wilson at Ysearch who was not
> part of the project. That individual consented to adding his haplotype to
> the results table on the Wilson DNA page but did not affiliate with the
> project. Similarly Jim Wilson, who is working with David Faux on the
> Shetland Islands Project, allowed us to post his haplotype even though he
is
> not an enrolled member of the Wilson Surname project.
>
> We are fortunate enough to have a few Wilson participants from across the
> Atlantic in the, uh -- gosh, what to call them. You know, those islands
> where England and Scotland and Ireland and Wales are located. We could use
> more. In the Lovelace/Loveless surname project, which I follow closely,
the
> administrators are still trying to get some English participants to help
us
> tie down the roots of the three major and completely distinct Lovelace
lines
> in North America. We almost had one a couple of months ago, but he didn't
> submit his samples after ordering the kit. Drat!
>
> I imagine the dynamics of recruitment will vary depending on the surname.
> Projects for common surnames like Wilson will probably grow without
> aggressive outreach efforts simply because the growth of interest in DNA
> genealogy will catch more Wilsons in a random sample than people with less
> frequently encountered surnames like, say, Shakespeare or Hathaway.
>
> David Wilson

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