If the Carter Society is testing through FamilyTreeDNA, the members can
belong to more than one project.
gayle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vickie Carter Tallent" <vickie(a)carter-cousins.org>
To: <CARTER-DNA-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [CARTER-DNA] Robert "King" Carter group?
From what I understand the Carter Society is testing descendents of
Robert
"King" Carter along with other Colonial Virginia Carters. Although we
have had several participants believe that they are descended from Robert
we don't have enough matches between them to prove it.
For example, in Group 1 on our test results page, there are several
matches who also have a paper trail to the same original ancestor, John
born in 1723. Because both their genealogical research and their DNA
matches it validates their research. One can believe with certainty that
this is the DNA result that John, born in 1723 would have had if he could
have been tested. The others who match could also be descendents of John
and they haven't been able to find the paper trail to prove it or they
could be a match that is similar to a match with a different surname, no
relationship within a genealogical time frame.
Since the Carter Society started their own DNA project we have lost
several members. To quote their website:
"The Carter Society was organized in 2001 as a non-profit membership
corporation for the primary purpose of promoting fellowship and
understanding of family ties among current Carter descendants and of
fostering high-caliber historical and genealogical research of the Carter
immigrants to Colonial Virginia, their ancestry and descendants."
(
http://www.cartersociety.org/)
So if a participant in our group were to find that they matched a proven
descendent of Robert, and had good solid research they would be inclined
to join the Society.
Vickie
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