You folks aren't sharing very much regarding DNA recently.
If you have been to
http://www.familytreedna.com/(c1unxwvjnrr3oebovhuard3e)/public/carroll/in...
or to
http://www.childtalk.com/History/carrollfamilydnavalues.pdf
you have seen that the orange band in the middle is growing.
The men who are matching here all have known or strongly presumed ancestors from Sampson
County, NC, except one. Kit # 19059 can only find lineage back to SC in 1808.
Four of these men have now completed the 67 marker test and match at least 64/67. There
will be one more 67 marker test soon. There is one factor besides the comparison of
markers that makes me think those four are definitely related. At DYS 425 all four of
these men have a null value. In other words, they have no repeat of a given pattern of
the proteins at that location on the DNA strand. The footnote explaining that locus on my
cousin's report from FTDNA stated:
" ***A value of “0” for any marker indicates that the lab reported a null value or no
result for this marker. All cases of this nature are retested multiple times by the lab to
confirm their accuracy. Mutations causing null values are infrequent, but are passed on to
offspring just like other mutations, so related male lineages such as a father and son
would likely share any null values."
I believe that there is no question now that these four men have a common ancestor,
although we still don't know who he is. The goal of our loosely organized study group
has been to learn how the 10 families in Sampson County at the time of the 1790 census are
related to each other. Some day we will, and a blank spot on the DNA is going to help us.
Now, a question - - Have any of you seen another DNA report which contained a value of 0
or just a blank box at any location?
Lura Southard
List Administrator,
CARROLL-DNA(a)rootsweb.com