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From: "Dave Naylor" <>
Subject: [HOTRUM] (Fwd) Re: The scope of our Family Tree
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:30:43 -0500


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From: "Sue Price Parris"
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Date sent: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:28:08 -0600

I belong to the Price DNA study through Family Tree
http://www.familytreedna.com/

If interested people from this family name go in as a group, there is
a discount. I believe my brother paid $149 for his 12-marker DNA
kit.

And, I am going to be honest about the 12-marker test--it is not
enough. I upgraded it to the 24-marker kit and our family definition
was much clearer. I am now in the process of updating to the 64-
marker kit. Each shared marker is an indicator and the more one has
the closer the generations can be identified. Although it can be
pricier than most would like, the benefits far outweigh the costs--at
least they did for me.

I am upgrading to the 64-marker in an attempt to find the oldest
common ancestor of the 4 families I am related to by DNA. I won't go
into the science of it here due to the complexity of the subject--
hence, the URL.

Please feel free to ask me more questions and I will attempt to
answer them even if I have to do some research. My Hartrum lineage
is Price/Redding/Beecher/Hartrum, Julia A. She and Thompson Beecher
are buried in Fancher/Maple Grove Cemetery in Harlem Twp., Deleware
Co, OH and she died Jan, 15,1882. A tidbit about my
Greatgrandmother Huldah Beecher, daughter of Julia A. Hartrum and
Thompson Beecher who was a staunch Abolitionist, studied music at
Otterbien College in Westerville, Deleware Co, OH, member of the
Women's Christian Temperence Union, the Congregational Church, a
founder of Montrose, CO, and the ViceChair of the Republican Party in
Montrose Co CO. Not bad for a woman who died in 1916--our Hartrum
women are formidable!!!!!!! Sue Price Parris

======One of our big problems with DNA analysis is going to be the
cost. A good DNA test for one individual costs at minimum about
US$200, and will likely be a bit higher. Other surname groups that
are performing DNA testing (there are lots of them doing it) are
asking the provider of the DNA to pay for its testing. This is fine
if that individual has an interest in genealogy. However, in many of
our Hartrum cases the individuals we need to test have *no* interest
in genealogy and have never even contacted us! So . . . it will be
tough enough going to them to ask for their DNA, without having to go
the further step of asking them to pay for testing it! =======
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