Hi Joyce Harris Of Houston, Tx.
My Name is Lewis Butts of Ardmore, Ok. I decend from Thomas Casey B.1807
Va.& William Casey B.1803 Va. I don't know what County
but they both were in 1830 census of
Henry Co. they Both wound up in Cedar County, Missouri and that is as far as
I can go. Back on my Casey line. When I am financialy able I will get in on
the DNA project I need to know how to take the test and how to send it in.
If this
sounds like a connection. Thanks
Lew. Butts; lwsbts@
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From: "Joyce" <joy_harr(a)swbell.net>
To: <CASEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 7:05 AM
Subject: [CASEY-L] Casey DNA Project
Hello, fellow Casey-Listers...Being a female, I cannot personally
participate in the DNA project but have sponsored a cousin of my mother's,
who sent in his kit. The 25-marker results from
familytreedna.com show our
line is unrelated to either of the other two kits they've received
(according to a person I called at FTDNA).
My earliest Casey ancestor is Daniel Casey, RWS (recently proven to DAR),
who migrated to Wilkes and Elbert Co. Georgia from Henry Co. Virginia. I
suspect that his father or close relative may have been one Roger Casey
who
was in Amherst Co. Virginia, who had 12 white people in his household on a
1783 tax list. This same Roger, I believe (because of surname proximities
and other reasons) ended up in Wilkes/Lincoln Co. Georgia on Fishing Creek
later in the 1780s. This is on the Savannah River just across the line
from
SC. I have no proof, but there is strong circumstantial evidence of
family
connection to my Daniel and also to a Joel Casey, Thomas Casey, and
William
Casey. This Joel is likely the one who migrated to Hardin Co., TN where
there was also a Joseph Casey in records of the early 1820s (a brother of
Joel?). This whole batch of Caseys has close ties also to the Shannon
surname.
Roger Casey also had other children mentioned in deeds: Sarah, Hannah,
Ellinor, Peggy and John. There is no will to be found for either Roger or
Daniel. I don't know what happened to Roger's son John since there are
many
John Caseys and I cannot say conclusively in Georgia/SC enough which is
which-only my own, Daniel's son John who married Elizabeth Pace.
The earlier Roger from Virginia, with 12 people in his household, must
have
been the progenitor of many currently "unknown" Caseys. It would be
wonderful to get some more DNA submitted and find out if there are any
possible relatives out there. So far there have been no results posted on
the Casey DNA website but you can view other surname sites with posted
results and see how we can likewise make progress in sorting our Casey
lines. It would be exciting for us to make some of the same breakthroughs.
Examples, PACE or CROW projects have had enough participants, around 50-75
each, to show several different lines emerging.
Here's the link to the Pace site where you can see their color-coded chart
of DNA results:
http://www.pacesociety.org/DNA/results.htm
The Crow site, also with a color coded chart, is:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~crow2000/dnachart.htm (Note,
there was a Crow who married a female Casey.)
The $99 cost of a basic "12-marker" result, when you consider the time and
money it might save in chasing down a wrong lead, is very much worth it.
You
can upgrade to a 25-marker kit later if you want. I'm going to a family
reunion soon and want to encourage male Caseys there to be part of this
project since it also helps to have a checkpoint within your own known
line
(in case of unknown adoptions, etc.).
Any published results are anonymous, as far as who sent the kit-only kit
numbers are used as identifiers, along with your stated ancestral line.
When
results are published (in the form of the kit numbers and DNA marker
results
and known ancestor lines), there can be comparison of what we think we
know
with trends shown by the markers. Even "unknown" lines can possibly be
matched with DNA markers of known lines. Discrepancies can be observed and
noted. For instance, those who think they are of the "Abner" line can
compare and verify results against others who think they are of the Abner
line. Again, the actual submitter's name is anonymous and the test is
simple
and painless-swabbing the inside of the mouth. I'm not a technical person
but urge everyone to visit the
familytreedna.com website, type in "Casey"
in
the search box and follow the link to the Casey project site. I hope our
administrator will be posting results soon and that other male Caseys will
participate wholeheartedly. Only by doing so, can the Casey project, now
in
its infancy, establish a database of results to go forward and make
everyone's efforts worthwhile. It takes about six weeks to get results
after sending them in, so, get started soon!! Thanks..
Joyce Harris, Houston, TX
Daniel>John>Wiley>John Thomas>Porter>mother>me
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