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From: "Jim Huston" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Open and Closed Genealogy and DNA population LIMITATIONS
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:42:15 -0500
In-Reply-To: <030320051815.14163.422754410000A569000037532200734748050B989A0E00@comcast.net>


Went to that last link, from curiosity. Someone has way too much time on
his hands.

- Jim

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>Subject: Re: [DNA] Open and Closed Genealogy and DNA population LIMITATIONS
>Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:15:29 +0000
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>Statement of the obvious. This is not a forum in which to promulgate
>religious fundamentalist views that have nothing whatsoever to do with DNA.
> Click on the last link if you wish to see the poster's true intent.
>
>David F.
>
>
>
>-------------- Original message --------------
>
> > Charles wrote:
> >
> > > Tom,
> > >
> > > I saw this posting in another site that seems to indicate that you
> > > have allegedly traced your Tinny surname back to 4000 B.C. Have you
> > > used any DNA testing to validate your research?
> > >
> > > http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pgraph/genealogy.html
> >
> > "The Tinney Surname study, back to 4,000 B.C.",
> > only attempted to online some information as found
> > in record sources allegedly dating back to circa 4000 B.C.
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~knops/timetab.html
> > . . .
> >
> > Tracing through time, the Tinney, or any other family
> > Surname, is done by gathering a preponderance of
> > evidence. This is complicated by historical dates,
> > which are so uncertain, as listed in various cultures.
> > The year 5508 B.C., was the date given for
> > the beginning of Creation, as used in the Eastern
> > Orthodox Church, from the 7th Century, at
> > Constantinople (now, Istanbul, Turkey),
> > and on through the 18th Century, in other areas
> > of Eastern Orthodox influence. Syrian Christians
> > in very early times stated 5490 B.C. as the beginning
> > of Creation. James Ussher (1581-1656) calculated
> > from the Holy Scripture that October 23, 4004 B.C.
> > was the beginning of Creation. According to
> > the Hebrew calendar, probably designed by Hillel II,
> > in the 4th Century, (and basically used from the 15th
> > Century, by the Hebrew [Jewish] Nation), the year
> > of Creation was calculated as 3760 B.C. The Mayan
> > calendar, a system used on the American Continent,
> > gives the Creation date as February 10, 3641 B.C.
> > . . .
> > http://www.academic-genealogy.com/tingeo.htm
>
>
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