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From: (Raymond Whritenour)
Subject: autosomal testing leads to breakthrough
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:50:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: Mary Jo Neyer <maryjo@neyersoftware.com>'s message of Fri, 25Nov 2005 06:30:38 -0500


Mary Jo:

The so-called "Lumbee Indians" are a tri-racial group, so I don't see
how one could determine which race (White, Black, American Indian) your
autosomal DNA matches. What's more, the American Indian forbears of the
Lumbee are supposed to be Croatans--a Siouan speaking people. They
weren't "Algonquin." So, it's unclear, to me, exactly what it is you've
found by this autosomal testing.

Ray Whritenour

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Mary Jo wrote:

I would like to let everyone know that Thomas Krahn's autosomal testing
has led to a real breakthrough in understanding my genetic genealogy. As
administrator for Hooper's Island, from where my maternal grandfather
came, we had a lot of documented genealogy going back to about 1780,
plus the tradition that almost 400 years agoa Ruark ancestor had
purchased a native American woman for some blankets. The island society
was fairly closed until the last 100 years or so, so I thought that
there would be the chance that Algonquin genetic material to show up in
DNA testing, although in minute amounts. The autosomal testing showed a
good match with the Lumbee Indians, now living in north Carolina but
some of whom lived on those very islands of which Hooper's is one. But
what amounted to an even bigger breakthrough was the discovery of DNA
which matches that of Guinean-Bissau, a small western African nation
which was the source for a lot of slaves. The Lumbee Indians
intermarried heavily with escaped slaves, so the story of the purchase
of the wife may indeed be even more real than I had imagined. I had no
idea I had African DNA. It is amazing and wonderful to me that I can
find out such a thing.
Thank you, Thomas

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