OK John,
It is just that you gave me a turn there for a minute as I thought it was
another John we did not know about!
How far out? The distance in miles matters not but it is a bit like saying
Kentucky when you mean Illinois. Put another way, off target, low and to
the right at 4 O'clock.
Best wishes Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cattley" <john.cattley(a)gmail.com
To:
<catley(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:41
PM
Subject: Re: [CATLEY] Cat*ley dna test results
Yes, Tim, that's probably me. My British geography apparently
needs much
work. How far off was I?
John
On 4/2/07, Tim Cattley <timjhcat(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Liz,
> Many thanks for getting me up and running on Y-Search via
familytreedna.
> Sorry I had to recruit you to tick the boxes for me but
it has been very
> worthwhile because I have had a good look around my Haplogroup of R1b1c
and
> it makes interesting reading when one delves into it.
> The near marker matches are a bit difficult to decypher
and thus it is
> good to know that the staff at familytreedna will automatically flag up
(as
> they have done in the Bilton Ainstey and Normanton Cat*ley case)
where a
> 99.0%+, certainty of a genetic match exists.
> Having said that, it was interesting to "de
tune" the match ratio and
see
> who else worldwide who has also been tested, carries the same
Haplogroup.
> Lots of Americans (well
obviously! They presumably being from
> English/Scottish/Irish/Welsh/German and Scandinavian descent) but many
> Franco/Belgian as well plus smatterings of others within Western Europe
too
> numerous to detail here.
> This group is the one thought to have retreated to the
Iberian
Peninsular
> at the last Ice Age and then followed its melt back, North
through
France
> and into Britain before the land that is now beneath the North
Sea sank
down
> and made us an island.
> I nearly had a fit when I went up to the Y37 stage and
searched and got
an
> almost perfect match with a John Cattley who's origins are
indicated as
> Lincolnshire. They only miss my Locus designations by one Allele each in
two
> of the 37 Loci matches. Then logic kicked in and told me that
the
person I
> must be looking at is in reality, our John Cattley of the Bilton
Ainstey
> Tree incorrectly identified as originating from Lincolnshire rather than
> Yorkshire?
> Either I am reading the results all wrongly or John has
typed in Lincs
> rather than Yorks on his application. Maybe you will wish to check this
out
> Liz?
> The whole dna event has been an interesting experience
for me and
> productive in joining two "separate Cat*ley trees" together which I
honestly
> did not expect to get at this early stage of what is a 25 year
holding
span
> as far as the testing company is concerned.
> Hopefully more people with Cat*ley origins who trace down
through the
male
> (Y) line will be enthused enough by us initiators to go ahead
and do the
> test as well, the more volunteers we get, the more accurate we become in
> identifying our mutual origins.
> Cat*ley is so unusual as it is, that we have a really
good chance of
> identifying how many basic cells of families originated using the name
> independently. How many separate Catley lines are there?
> Only dna tests will tell.
> Regards, Tim Cattley
>
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