HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dear Listers.
This CARROLL-DNA List is now 1-year old. We have several new members and so I want to
post a link to our archives. That would be
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/index/CARROLL-DNA/
for the threaded archives. Last February many of us posted our CARROLL lineages and
genealogical goals here during a roll-call. Those posts may be accessed at the link
above, arranged by month.
The CARROLL surname Y-DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) has grown to about 25
participants in Y-DNA testing, and includes three from the National Genographic Project,
and two from a Bahama Project. Apparently certain CARROLL Loyalists to England removed to
the Bahamas during the Revolutionary War. Many also went to Canada. This is a good
start, but we would welcome more CARROLLs to join the Project. Also it cannot be over
emphasized how vital it is for all Y-DNA participants to post their Carroll LINEAGES. To
just keep them private and anonymous serves no purpose at all and subverts the purpose of
Y-DNA testing for genealogy.
Congratulations to all of you who have posted your Y-DNA results to the searchable public
databases such as Ysearch, along with your CARROLL lineages. This infant science of Y-DNA
for genealogy is so very new that sometimes it does seem disappointing in not instantly
breaking down all of our brick walls. The databases so far are very small. Years will
be needed to fully populate them. Nevertheless, the data you enter today will be in the
record for the future, and for your future family genealogists. I believe that about one
person in 5000 in America is surnamed CARROLL. I know that is true here in Seattle, just
by looking at the telephone book, so there may well be over 60,000 CARROLL's in the
United States alone.
Surely we can get more than 25 of them interested in genetic genealogy........
All Good Things for the New Year,
Eric Olson
CARROLL-DNA List Admin.
Eric Olson
ericbear01(a)earthlink.net