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From: "Alfred A. Aburto Jr." <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Malaspina et al (2001)'s Cohens -- an answer ?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:18:29 -0700
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Lawrence and James,
The Cohen project used to be visible. But recently there was some kind
of security issue with FTDNA peoject web pages (I don't recall the
details) and FTDNA changed things and after that is when the Cohen
project became invisible.

And you know what, I never thought that I should label or assume all
these people as Cohanim! I just missed that completely. Now I can't go
back and check. :-( But also I'd be somewhat uncomfortable too assuming
things. I mean, I'd do it (label them as Cohanim) for my own personal
database, but I wouldn't publish that in the open literature (a
scientific journal). A good researcher would be like Dr Hammer going
out, or having his students go out, and actually interview people to
make sure that he had a good and valid database to start with.
Al


> James Heald wrote:

>Lawrence Mayka wrote:
>
>
>
>>>[mailto:] On Behalf Of
>>>Alfred A. Aburto Jr.
>>>To the outsider there is no solid
>>>evidence that the CMH-12 corresponds to the Cohanim at all,
>>>or that the
>>>CMH-12 is more frequent in the Cohanim!
>>>
>>>
>>Ironically, FTDNA has a Cohen Project with 118 members, but no web site:
>>
>>http://www.ftdna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=A21024&special=TRUE
>>
>>I could fully understand omitting surnames, even ancestors and kit numbers,
>>from a web site; but it would still be useful to researchers simply to see,
>>in bulk, the haplogroups and haplotypes associated with people who consider
>>themselves Cohanim.
>>
>>Has anyone suggested this to the administrator?
>>
>>
>>
>
>It's not just the Cohen name itself.
>
>All FTDNA projects with Cohen-esque names are working with the shutters
>down, in what appears to be a deliberate system-wide policy.
>
>e.g.:
>
>Chazanovich (19)
>http://www.ftdna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=A74287&special=true
>
>Cohen (118)
>http://www.ftdna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=A21024&special=true
>
>Davidic Dynasty (76)
>http://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=E43088&special=true
>
>Geller/Heller (8)
>http://www.ftdna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=A80836&special=true
>
>Kaplan (34)
>http://www.ftdna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=F66983&special=true
>
>Katz (12)
>http://www.ftdna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=V51184&special=true
>http://www.familytreedna.com/public/KatzGeneticMatchGroup/
>
>Katzman (40)
>http://www.ftdna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=T10476&special=true
>
>

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