Would anyone on the list know or be attached to the same family as General
George Casey who is in Iraq with the US troops? Or know who his ancestors
were?
Judy Myatt
Nova Scotia
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Casey [mailto:chris@casey.com]
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 8:55 PM
To: CASEY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CASEY-L] Resolve to Recruit for the Casey Surname DNA Project
Greetings Caseys,
Lately I've been considering the growth rate of our DNA surname
project. The benefits to all of us in searching our genealogy by DNA
will increase exponentially as the number of participants in our
project grows. Among the FTDNA surname projects in the letter 'C',
there are 123 Campbells, 117 Carters, 145 Crows... heck, they've got
35 Crunks! But here we are, still with less than 10 participants in
the Casey Project. Surely we can do better!
I'd like to suggest a New Year's Resolution for each of us. In 2006,
resolve to try and recruit a new member to our project. It may not be
easy. It's likely the Casey's you are most familiar with are
immediate family members, and if your own DNA has already been
tested, then getting someone with a known connection to you into the
project may seem to offer little benefit. But what about other
Casey's you have come across in your own family search? How many
connections have you made with Caseys that didn't pan out. It could
still well help others in this project if you could reach out to them
and suggest they join. Or if you have a Casey-related web site, do
you link to this site and encourage your Casey visitors to join?
I don't know what a reasonable goal is. According to the 1990 Census,
Casey ranked as the 479th most common surname in the United States.
It can't be too ambitious of us to say we'll try and grow the
participation in this project to 25 in 2006. If we all make some
effort at recruitment, we will all benefit from the results.
With best wishes for a wonderful 2006,
Chris Casey
The Casey Surname DNA Project
http://casey.com/dna
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http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=:2741662
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http://casey.com/blog/genealogy.html
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