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This link will take you to the Lowell Indiana Public library site which has
several Childers/Childress photo's of various types. (all of the Childers are
my kin)
http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/photopeo.htm
Indiana Jack
John Childers
John Andrew Childers Wolcott/Lowell, IN John Andrew Childers, age 81, of
Wolcott, IN, formerly of Lowell, IN, passed away on Thursday, December 16, 2004.
He is survived by one son, Greg J. Childers of Wolcott; one daughter, Nancy
(Kevin) Goodwin of Remington, IN; one daughter-in-law, Chrissy D. Childers of
Ramey, IL; six grandchildren; one sister, Margey Monet of AZ; one brother-in-law,
Orville Buche of CA; numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by
his wife, Phyllis and two sons, Matthew Childers and Eugene Truman. Funeral
Services will be held on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 at 11:00 AM, at the Sheets
Funeral Home, 604 E. Commercial Ave., Lowell, IN, with Pastor Jacqueline Foley
officiating. Burial will follow at Lowell Memorial Cemetery, Lowell, IN.
Friends are invited to call on Monday from 4:00-8:00 PM at the funeral home. John
was a WWII Army Veteran and recipient of the Purple Heart. He was a lifetime
member of the American Legion and VFW. John was a member of the Palestine
Christian Church in Wolcott.
Charles Edwin CHILDERS 63 Arizona Los Angeles on 1/26/2002
Unclaimed Persons List
People who have died and no next of kin has been found
For more information regarding this case please contact Inv. Doyle TOLBERT,
Los Angeles Co. Coroner at 323-343-0755, during regular business hours.
Name Charles Edwin CHILDERS
AKA
AKA
CaseNumber 2002-00937
Age 63
Place of Death Los Angeles on 1/26/2002
Place of Birth Arizona
Last Known Address 501 South Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA
Hello,
There is some breaking news.
Here is a summary of the DNA topics that are new.
1) Family Tree DNA Laboratory has created new software that analyzes DNA
test results more precisely than before. The latest DNA research from
the University of Arizona in partnership with FTDNA has determined that
each "marker" in the DNA chain has its own mutation rate and they have
made initial estimates of each of these unique mutation rates. This
differs from the old methodology that all markers are treated the same.
The new software has been available to DNA list managers for a while and
at some point individual testing parties will be able to see a hyperlink
on their personal FTDNA web page to use the software to analyze their
own test results. The new software is revolutionary because it predicts
relationships between test results that were not apparent before.
(The test for 37 markers with FTDNA www.FamilyTreeDNA.com costs $229
when ordered through our Childress-Childers DNA Project.)
2) A competitor to FTDNA called DNAHeritage laboratory
www.dnaheritage.com has a new 43 marker test for $169 and that is a
bargain price. However, you don't have access to the software to
analyze the results in detail....however the price is right, the markers
abundant and analysis can be done the old fashion way....ask experienced
veterans to help make sense of the results.
3) Regarding those who are in the Viking Childress Group....from the
outset of the DNA project the Viking Childress group (also known as
Haplogroup letter "I") has been, by definition, a class of DNA that is
indigenous to Northern Europe such as Germany and Denmark. Also, this
Haplogroup letter "I" is only a minority of the population of Sweden and
Norway. During the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago, this Haplogroup "I"
traced its origins to the Eastern Mediterranean such as areas around
what is today Turkey.
In modern times, Childress researchers have found some of their
Childress ancestors in this group living in Britain prior to emigrating
to Colonial America. This has previously been explained as being
Germanic-Danish DNA crossing to Britain possibly as Danish Vikings or
Germanic Saxons or a smaller probability of being part of the
Scandinavian Viking invasion of Britain. This DNA is definitely an
outsider or "invader" to Britain which is why I call the group "Viking
Childresses" with the caveat that there is a chance that they are "Saxon
Childresses" or even "Norman-French Childresses" instead.
The latest DNA research has taken a bizarre turn....a John S. Allred
surnamed individual has matched 21/25 with Viking Childress surnamed
individuals enough to be related yet has enough mutations to suggest
that the common ancestor to this Childress-Allred union was centuries
ago. It would have taken several centuries for some of Allred and
Childress mutations to occur that are evident in the DNA test.
The software of FTDNA predicts that John S. Allred and the Viking
Childress group have at least a 68% chance of being related in the past
600 years. And if I configure the software to speculate that John S.
Allred and the Viking Childresses DON'T share a common ancestor in the
past 10 generations, then there is a 92% chance that they share a common
ancestor somewhere in the past 850 years.
It appears that the Viking Childress group and the Allred surname shared
a common ancestor. Further there is a case to be made that the Allred
surname begat the Viking Childress group. I am pondering the hypothesis
that somewhere in the Middle Ages an Allred surnamed individual had a
child out of wedlock and that that baby then took the Childress surname
and his descendants are the Viking Childress lineages of today.
The Allred connection dovetails with the possible origin of the
"Childress" surname itself. The surname "Childress" may have been a
surname given by the Church to out of wedlock births since numerous
church records have entries for these births as "Child of Christ" or
"Child of our Father".
John S. Allred, the testing party, has joined the Childress DNA Project
and the Childress Rootsweb discussion list and I am classifying him in
my charts as kin to the Viking Childresses and possibly the progenitor
to the Viking Childress group until further research emerges. John S.
Allred's test results for 37 markers are
13 22 14 10 14 15 11 14 11
12 12 28 15 9 9 8 11 23
15 20 28 14 14 16 16 9 10
19 21 14 14 17 23 35 35 12
10
4) Lastly, from the outset of this Childress-Childers DNA Project it has
been known that there are several unrelated-by-DNA Groups of Childress.
The unrelated DNA groups are called Haplogroups. Haplogroups by
definition are groupings that trace to different progenitors more than
10,000 years ago.
Haplogroup "R1b" Childresses are Celtic Childresses (the group to which
DNA Project Manager Gary Childress belongs) has no DNA relationship to
the Viking Childresses of Haplogroup letter "I" discussed above.
The Celtic Childress DNA (Haplogroup R1b) is indigenous to the British
Isles in the past 10,000 and before that survived the Ice Age in the
Western Mediterranean around Spain.
There is breaking news for the Celtic Childresses. The software at FTDNA
has yielded surprising results for those Childress of Celtic
origins..... Previously, there have been several Childress surnamed
individuals in Haplogroup R1b, Celtic, who share similar but not
perfectly matching DNA test results. There are quite of number of
mutations on Celtic Childress test results and until now those
mis-matches seemed to be too many to classify the testing parties as
related by a RECENT COMMMON ANCESTOR. (As always, by definition of
sharing the same Celtic Haplogroup designation, the testing parties
would share an ancestor that was the progenitor to the Haplogroup tens
of thousands of years ago before the use of surnames.) The Breaking
News is that the new FTDNA software is assigning probabilities up to 60%
that there is indeed a RECENT COMMON ANCESTOR in the past 850 years for
at least some of these Celtic Childresses. I am revisiting the
interpretation of Celtic Childress DNA test results and am classifying
most of the Celtic Childresses as related to each other with a RECENT
COMMON ANCESTOR since the inception of surnames. Gary Childress and the
Grandson of Freeeman Cratus Childers and Kenneth Nelson Childres and
Joseph W. A. Childress of Goochland and Dr. Joesph Howard Childress and
Guy Robert Childress have been classified by me as related in the latest
DNA Spreadsheet. There are still a lot of mutations on these Celtic
tests to explain. The Celtic Childress lineages may have their own
unique, fast mutation rate or they may have branched very early from
each other and have been independently mutating for 600 years or longer.
My initial reaction is that we are looking at exceptionally fast
mutations rates as the best explanation. The Celtic Childresses need to
find more related testing parties who will take the 37 or 43 marker
tests to see what patterns emerge. The Celtic Childresses need to find
KNOWN CLOSE RELATIVES to take the 37 or 43 marker tests and see if the
mutation rate is above average. It would be helpful for brothers,
cousins, fathers and sons to test their DNA to see if a pattern of fast
mutations is apparent amongst close family relations. I appeal for
everybody in the Celtic group for further assistance. Would you please
consider the DNAHertiage 43 marker test ($169) of a near
relative...cousins are best. If you want to find out the answers, this
is the way forward. We need to determine the mutation rate of our
markers.
Regards
Gary Childress
PS. Martha, regarding your questions on John Childress and pictures, I
have nothing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Martha Ferris [mailto:mkferris@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 7:29 AM
To: Mark and Gary
Subject: news
Gary
Merry Christmas
Do you have any news for the Winter newsletter? I am interested in
anything
that you have re the DNA or anything else. Also I saw a lot of traffic
about John Childress and some pictures. I sent an email but never
received
an answer.
Did you ever get anything on that. It seemed to be in your messages.
Also, I could use anything for the newsletter. Especially pictures
People
like to look at the pictures. Thanks for anything you can send me.
Martha