Thanks, Whit - I think your "little project" is the wave of the future
for genealogy-DNA. I descend from the Sylvester WELCHs of VA, and am
frustrated that we don't have matching DNA from that line. But I too,
am actively looking for all-female line descendants of my earliest
Matriarchs, including those in the early WELCH tree. To be absolutely
sure, we need matching mtDNA from each Matriarch. The hard part will
be tracking down matches, and trying to find ones near our Matriarchs
in time and place.
Congratulations on a great start, Whit!
Jim - Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Whit Athey <wathey(a)hprg.com> wrote:
Dear Carroll List,
Thanks to Lura's "nudge," I will try to bring everyone up to date on a
little project of mine. This concerns the wife of Dempsey Carroll Jr,
who is unknown to us. Some have her name as "Martha," but there has
been no information as to her surname. BTW, what is the evidence that
her name was Martha?
I managed to convince an elderly relative of mine, who is a
matrilineal
descendant of "Martha," to take a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) test. The
hope was that the results would match someone else in the Family Tree
DNA database and that this would provide some leads on figuring out
who
Martha was. As you know, mtDNA is passed down from mother to child.
Males have it too from their mothers, but do not pass it on. Anyway,
the results of a full sequence test (FGS) give some interesting
results,
but there are no matches in the database. The mtDNA haplogroup for
this
line is unusual--Haplogroup T2a1a. There are very few of these in any
database, including GenBank, and none match exactly with our line.
I will keep looking for matches. If any other descendant of Dempsey
Jr
knows of a theory about "Martha" that might be testable through mtDNA
and a matrilineal line, please let me know.
Whit
Lura wrote:
> Did everyone just give up trying to use DNA to find Carroll
> ancestors?
>
>
> There has been almost no communication on this mail list since
> November. Has everyone found a connection to cousins who all
> have similar DNA and discovered that you had a common ancestor in
> the "old country" around 1000 AD? I didn't think so!
>
>
> May I suggest that someone tell us how you HAVE made some
> progress matching DNA with another person?
>
>
> Then would someone tell us of a challenge you are experiencing,
> and maybe another person will have a suggestion?
>
>
> Many people in genealogy research are senior citizens. Frankly,
> I happen to know some of us may not have a really long time to
> accomplish what we want to do for leaving a record of our family
> for future generations.
>
>
> Let's get to work and help each other.
>
>
> Lura CARROLL Southard
> Researching the Scots-Irish Carrolls centered in Sampson, Duplin,
> and Bladen Counties, NC around 1790.
>
>
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