Hi John,
I would like to pass my condolences to the family & friends of
Jim Carr. I hope that his website can be maintained or at least that the
information is allowed to pass to someone who would be interested in saving
and sharing it. I also believe that amateur family genealogist, who spend
years gathering information should make sure that they can be confident
that another family member will continue the task when required. With
regard to DNA results, Familytree DNA, request that you name a person as
beneficiary to your account in order to safeguard the DNA test results into
the future. I don't understand why people go to the trouble to get their
DNA tested for comparison purposes and then don't even fill out the basic
information to help other to compare. Most people don't fill out the oldest
known ancestors or where they originated, they don't load up a gedcom file
with family names.it would make so much of a difference if they did.
Keep up the good work John
Regards
Joe Carr
Ireland
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Today's Topics:
1. Passing of a dear family member
(Carr Family DNA Genealogy Project)
2. National Geographic whole genome ancestral test
(Carr Family DNA Genealogy Project)
3. Re: Passing of a dear family member (Ryden Julia)
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Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:36:15 -0700
From: Carr Family DNA Genealogy Project <carrfamilydna(a)earthlink.net>
Subject: [CARR-DNA] Passing of a dear family member
To: carr-dna(a)rootsweb.com
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James Carr, the creator and owner of the Carr & Kerr website passed away
last April. This is very sad news because Jim provided so much to all of
us in our search for knowledge about our Carr & Kerr ancestors. Our
ancestral search creates a bond that makes us all family. Jim had been ill
for some time, so he was no longer able to keep the Carr & Kerr website up
to his high standards. I am hopeful the site can be maintained as a legacy
to Jim and for continued use by those seeking to learn about their Carr
ancestry. Jim continued the excellent service provided by Joe Carr in the
early days of the internet.
Unfortunately I only learned about this when one of his children posted on
the Carr Genealogy Facebook page recently. To even learn about Jim's
passing is unusual because most often all contact simple ends and we never
know. I want to take the opportunity to say it is our responsibility to
let our families know what we want done about all the ancestral information
we have gathered and especially the genetic results we've obtained through
DNA tests. Who, if anyone, should be contacted. What they chose to do is
up to them of course. But, we make many friends through our family history
search, they will miss us as well.
The DNA haplotypes of many of the early participants in the Carr Family
DNA Genealogy Project have been removed from the project, perhaps lost for
all time, by family members who perhaps do not understand what these tests
are about or share a passion about their family ancestry. They can only
know the importance of these tests if we tell them, which is often hard
because they may not share our passion. Only we can tell get our relatives
to understand that these tests are not a threat to them, that there is no
information that shows anything bad about them nor can it be used to their
disadvantage. Leaving the information accessible by others unites our
human family because others can learn about an ancestral connection from
the data. Sharing our genetic YSTR and mtDNA profiles with our ancestral
information becomes our legacy, our little part of the shared human
experience.
I hope you are all in the best of health and that our relationship through
these e-mails and on the Carr Genealogy Facebook page will continue for a
long time. I'd like to think that people will have access to the
information we have had long after we have left this life and use it to
establish connections with close relatives, as well as learn about their
ancestral past, through what we have all done . I hope you share my vision.
Our prayer for God to bless Jim's sole and welcome Jim to his presence,
I'm sure he will. And the same for all our members who have passed on
already and whenever their time comes.
Write anytime,
John Carr
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:54:49 -0700
From: Carr Family DNA Genealogy Project <carrfamilydna(a)earthlink.net>
Subject: [CARR-DNA] National Geographic whole genome ancestral test
To: carr-dna(a)rootsweb.com
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Another DNA test that uses the same technology as the 23andme test I just
e-mailed about is being offered by National Geographic. This test is
different than the 23andme test because the intent is to identify all
ancestral markers in your genome. The 23andme test is targeted to identify
other people who share the same markers and potentially a recent ancestral
connection. Family Tree DNA offers an almost identical test to the 23andme
test, called Family Finder. The family finder tests at 23andme and at
FTDNA and the ancestral test through National Geographic are excellent
whole genome DNA tests to learn what your genetic record tells you about
your ancestry and connections to other people living today, though, as I
wrote, each test has a different focus.
Please pass on word about these tests so everyone has an opportunity to
learn about their genetic record. Be curiously passionate.
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/
Write anytime,
John Carr
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:33:48 -0700
From: Ryden Julia <juryden(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CARR-DNA] Passing of a dear family member
To: carr-dna(a)rootsweb.com
Message-ID: <ECA61CC7-92F8-4692-B46C-0A1AEB207F5F(a)gmail.com>
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Thank you for this information and I am very sorry to hear of Jim's
passing.
My condolenses to his family
Judy Ryden
We cannot change the direction of the wind...
but we can adjust our sails.
juryden(a)gmail.com
oneinchto12(a)yahoo.com
On Aug 11, 2012, at 10:36 15 AM, Carr Family DNA Genealogy Project wrote:
> James Carr, the creator and owner of the Carr & Kerr website passed away
last April. This is very sad news because Jim provided so much to all of
us in our search for knowledge about our Carr & Kerr ancestors. Our
ancestral search creates a bond that makes us all family. Jim had been ill
for some time, so he was no longer able to keep the Carr & Kerr website up
to his high standards. I am hopeful the site can be maintained as a legacy
to Jim and for continued use by those seeking to learn about their Carr
ancestry. Jim continued the excellent service provided by Joe Carr in the
early days of the internet.
>
> Unfortunately I only learned about this when one of his children posted
on the Carr Genealogy Facebook page recently. To even learn about Jim's
passing is unusual because most often all contact simple ends and we never
know. I want to take the opportunity to say it is our responsibility to
let our families know what we want done about all the ancestral information
we have gathered and especially the genetic results we've obtained through
DNA tests. Who, if anyone, should be contacted. What they chose to do is
up to them of course. But, we make many friends through our family history
search, they will miss us as well.
>
> The DNA haplotypes of many of the early participants in the Carr Family
DNA Genealogy Project have been removed from the project, perhaps lost for
all time, by family members who perhaps do not understand what these tests
are about or share a passion about their family ancestry. They can only
know the importance of these tests if we tell them, which is often hard
because they may not share our passion. Only we can tell get our relatives
to understand that these tests are not a threat to them, that there is no
information that shows anything bad about them nor can it be used to their
disadvantage. Leaving the information accessible by others unites our
human family because others can learn about an ancestral connection from
the data. Sharing our genetic YSTR and mtDNA profiles with our ancestral
information becomes our legacy, our little part of the shared human
experience.
>
> I hope you are all in the best of health and that our relationship
through these e-mails and on the Carr Genealogy Facebook page will continue
for a long time. I'd like to think that people will have access to the
information we have had long after we have left this life and use it to
establish connections with close relatives, as well as learn about their
ancestral past, through what we have all done . I hope you share my vision.
>
> Our prayer for God to bless Jim's sole and welcome Jim to his presence,
I'm sure he will. And the same for all our members who have passed on
already and whenever their time comes.
>
>
> Write anytime,
>
> John Carr
>
>
>
>
>
> Discovering Carr lineage through DNA.
>
>
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