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From: "Beryl Turner" <>
Subject: Re: [TURNER-DNA] Turner of Scotland DNA disucssion group
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 09:51:16 +1000
References: <20070520.074019.26896.5838@webmail15.dca.untd.com>


I also agree- there is only one TurnerDNA group at ftDNA. I am not trying to
take people awy from that. I am trying to group those whose ancestors come
from Scotand for the purpose of further analysis. I don't expect that there
are more than 10 of the members who fit that description anyway.

I am NOT offering any DNA testing services. In fact I will be promotiong the
DNA testing of Turners from Scotland through ftDNA. But my group will also
gather any Turners from Scotland who have tested with other companies.

I think the ftDNA Turner group introduction clearly says that the group is
for US Turner families, and does not seem to want Turners who are not
American.I would expect most Turners who are not American have tested
elsewhere.

So I am still calling for Turners who have DNA tested and whose ancestors
come from Scotland to join my discussion group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/turnerofscotlandDNA/

Beryl Turner

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Subject: Re: [TURNER-DNA] Turner of Scotland DNA disucssion group


>I agree with Gail R. Blancett. Keep us in one Turner DNA group.
>
> Still searching for the parents of William Toliver Turner (1824-1865,
> Fauq. Co. VA)
>
>
> -- "Gail R. Blancett" <> wrote:
> Beryl,
>
> How do you plan on coordinating your group with our existing Turner DNA
> Group? Are you planning on the people doing their test through our
> existing group and using out testing company?
>
> I hope that is your plan as I would hate to see your efforts dilute or
> remove the members of our existing project from it. This would only set
> us back many years.
>
> I certainly welcome your efforts to recruit Turners who are in Scotland
> or the UK to join us in the project with the same requirement of
> submitting a lineage for their direct Turner line so we can hopefully
> have a means of determining connections between those who came to the
> American Colonies with those families who remained in the UK or those
> who went to Australia and New Zealand.
>
> One thing that continues to remain a problem is with people who have had
> handed down some "story" about having Scottish roots but absolutely
> nothing in the way of a paper trail that would document those origins.
> We do have some documented lines in the project already that we do have
> proof of immigration from Ireland and those could well have originated
> in Scotland. We also have several lines that are now in Australia and
> New Zealand and the UK.
>
> Gail R. Blancett, Administrator, Turner DNA Project
>
>
> Beryl Turner wrote:
>
>>I have started a discussion group to try to group together the Turner
>>families whose ancestors originate in Scotland, and who want to use DNA
>>testing to sort out the various families involved. There are SO many
>>Williams and James, and Georges, and no clue to the family links!
>>
>>Ther can't be too many Scotts Turner families in the 1600-1700s in
>>Scotland. I do think we can identify some of them by DNA testing and allow
>>us to eliminate some marriages or births from our genealogy searches.
>>
>>So please- if you have DNA information on your family and you originate in
>>Scotland- lets give it a go.
>>
>>PLease go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/turnerofscotlandDNA/
>>
>>Beryl Turner
>>
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