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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 6:24 PM
Subject: Indian Ancestry
Hi All
The interesting discussion of Indian blood cursing throughone’s
veins leads me to send the following item on the subject.
If you have been unable to prove or disprove an “old family tale” concerning
Indian ancestry, there may be a solution to your problem. An extremely rare
mutation of the “Y” chromosome may be a genetic marker unique to the people
who migrated to the Americas some 30,000 years ago. Stamford University
researchers, using a new method of scanning genetic changes, have found a
mutation that in the sample exists only in Indian populations in North and
South America and in Eskimo groups. The leadauthor of the Stamford Research
Study noted, “In only one chromosome in all theworld was there this change
and all Native Americans may be able to trace their heritage back to that
genetic change.
So, that old family tale maybe true to a degree, but you will still have to
prove to what tribe of American Indian you belong. Seeking the answer will
involve a trip to your physician or optometrist and dentist. The eyes of
American Indians and Blacks carry a melanin (pigmentation) peculiar to them.
This is in the back of the eye on the retina. Using his light, your
physician/optometrist/ophthalmologist can determine if the melanin is
present. Your dentist can tell if you do or do nothave a Carrabelli cusp on
the maxillary first molars. Counting from the center front of your upper
teeth, the sixth tooth on the back on each side is your maxillary first
molars The cusp is present on those of strictly western European origin, but
missing on those of Asian or American Indian heritage.
Published THE FAMILY TREE,February-March 1997 with credit given to L. & M.
Genealogy published by TheTalbot Library & Museum, P0 Box 349 Colcord, OK
74338.
My interest is that my Jesse Weathers Sr. (b. 1776 Sussex Co., VA, d. 1857
Fayette Co., AL) married about 1800, probably in Tennessee, a Charlotte who
was about 13 years of age at the time (he was 24). I found a bible record of
one of their children that had lots of dates including Jesse’s birth and
death dates, but the bible was completely silent on Charlotte. This led me to
suspect that the Weathers children, or at least some of them, were not too
proud of their mother, perhaps because she was an American Indian. When this
article came to my attention, I took it to mydentist and had him check my
first maxillary molars. Sure enough, they do not have the Carrabelli cusp.
The hypothesis says that therefore I have some Indian Blood!