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From: "Ted Chadbourne" <>
Subject: Fw: [SPENCER] New Spencer DNA web page
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:15:54 -0400


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From: "J & S Spencer" <>
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Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:30 PM
Subject: [SPENCER] New Spencer DNA web page


>A new web page is now available for the SPENCER DNA Project.
> Go to: http://www.FamilyTreeDNA.com/public/SPENCER/
>
> Sharron Spencer #1487B
> Spencer DNA Project Manager
>
> ==== SPENCER Mailing List ====
> SHGS website: www.SHGS.ORG

Thank you, Spencer-List! While the Spencer Hist.& Geneal. Society seems to have lost interest in MAINE Spencers*, some members of CHADBOURNE-L and GOODWIN-Lists may still subscribe. On the SPENCER-List, immigrants predominantly to-the-Central US-East may help show the way to their possible-cousins-in-England who settled Kittery Maine and to others who came to Connecticut in the early 1600s, by pioneering in genetic detective work. As you may well know, not only can MALE ancestry be traced by some types of DNA, but also, very reliably, the much greater challenge** of FEMALE (matrilineal) ancestry, which is passed from mother to daughter (and to a daughter's sons, where it ends). Such is traced by MITOCHONDRIAL DNA (MtDNA).

There have been many queries on the Spencer-List from those who trace back to states such as ILLINOIS and IOWA, through which wagon trains passed (later trains and barges using the Erie Canal to the tributaries of the Mississippi River for those from New England), from each of the three regions above, including VA, MD and the Carolinas.

* The MAINE SPENCERs came from immigrant William Chadbourne's daughter Patience, who married Thomas SPENCER (and the very fertile Goodwin tribe came from their daughter Margaret SPENCER, who married Daniel GOODWIN, immigrant from Yoxford (sic), England Several generations of these three families may be found at www.chadbourne.org with source citations. So, due to constricted geography in the upper mid-west we had an early smelting pot for those may have had common roots in the British Isles. (But as they continued west, farmers tended to seek a climate where they could grow crops they knew).

** The difficulty, of course, with MtDNA, is that it's much more challenging to trace female ancestry in the early years of America as well as England, since property was typically held in a man's name. As well, elected leaders tended to be male, and many early birth records as well as baptism records in churches, named only the father (overlooking the most reliably know parent, if I may say so).

We thank the SPENCER family for leading the way in this type of reliable ancestral sleuthing. Likely at the site given one can delete the ending surname and find other families whose descendants are invited to come together. This is not an endorsement of that particular website, however; I've not compared it with others.
And of course this is not an endorsement of any signature block below my signature, which may be an advertisement by Ancestry, Inc.

REMINDER: When you adopt SPAM-resistant mail FILTERS, the name of the mailing list at Rootsweb, or elsewhere, must appear in your address book (for the simpler systems) or in your approved senders or "WHITE LIST" (e.g. spamarrest.com) for the more advanced systems, unless the latter is backed up by a challenge system, though those clever systems are designed to fool computers (normal senders to mailing Lists but inept at reading usernames in graphic images).

Please note: You NEED NOT QUOTE BACK IN FULL a message such as this, and may delete portions if that is your default setting. Also, you may always delete the signature block of the List to which you sending, since it would be doubled when your reply appears, the reason we've sometimes seen long strings of duplicate signature blocks. {I can quote this one in full (moved to the top) because Sharron was more concise than I <grin>}.

~ Ted Chadbourne, Chair, Genealogical Research Committee, CFA

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