Hello Dave
I know how hard you have tried to locate your father and his family in the
Washington State Census records. I have also previously spent some time going
through the US Census trying to find your Joe (Buster), but without success.
And I suspect that others on this list have done the same, because I know that
there are a number of Listers who try hard to help other CHANDLER family history
researchers.
Before you close the book on DNA testing, I would like to be sure that you are
aware of a couple of things:
1. The testing is absolutely painless (just rubbing a cotton-wool bud inside
your cheek), and confidential.
2. The heritage markers which are on your Y-chromosome DNA are virtually
identical to those of your father, and his were inherited virtually unchanged
from your grandfather, and so on back across many generations and hundreds of
years. Think about it - your personal heritage markers have been inherited
almost intact down your male ancestral line since before America was formed -
someone carrying your heritage markers inside his body sailed across the ocean
at some time in the past. Each of your direct ancestors, and their brothers,
probably had a number of male children, and the male descendants of all of those
children walking around today will be carrying virtually the same heritage
markers as you. So you have potentially hundreds of CHANDLER cousins all around
America and probably also overseas, any of whom may have had their DNA tested -
it is a "hot" topic for those interested in their heritage - and we are trying
hard to attract as many of them as we can to the project. So the potential
matches for you are certainly not just in Washington State. And one of those
may have some clues as to your father's origins, or cause you to look in a
different direction.
3. If you participate in the DNA project, it is not just a once-off comparison
of your DNA against those already tested. As new participants come in, their
DNA markers will continue to be compared with yours, so that even if you draw a
blank today, that is not the end of it - if a match came along in, say, a year's
time, you would be notified of it.
Dave, I urge you to re-consider Barb's suggestion - the DNA test was responsible
for a major breakthrough with my own family history research, taking me back
another eight generations - 200 years - above my previous known point, to 1575
at present. Priceless. Why not you? No guarantees, of course, but you know
the saying "nothing ventured, nothing gained"!
All good wishes
Dick Chandler in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
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From: <Famsource(a)aol.com>
To: <CHANDLER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [CHANDLER] Re: More Chandler data
In a message dated 1/15/2006 4:53:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,
jimair(a)pelicancoast.net writes:
Dave,
We have emailed previously-several years ago. As I was reading these posts,
I was just wondering if maybe you have considered the DNA testing the CFA is
using and discussing.
Hi ! Barb,
Yep ! I have considered the test. However, I am not sure what it would
do for me in particular. My father has passed on, so there would be no DNA
from him. The only hope would be if some Washington Chandler relative had
joined
the group, than possible we could get a match from their lines. As far as I
can see, my particular DNA line only goes back as far as myself.
Dave Chandler - _Famsource(a)aol.com_
(mailto:Famsource@aol.com)
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