Apparently some of you are NOT paying attention to me.
You may NOT contribute to the Wells Special DNA Study yet!!! I received a
message from the Molecular Genealogy project today advising me that they
WILL NOT accept any additional samples for the Wells study until we have
all the necessary Pedigree information in place.
You MUST coordinate with ME BEFORE you go to a collection event to
contribute to the Wells study. They need to know you are coming unlike the
walk-ins for the main project. There are consent forms that need to be
signed that are different. NONE of you who have gone have signed these
consent forms. We now need to get them to you separately. None of you had
your pedigree information in place in the system BEFORE you went so they
have no way of placing you in the Wells project database.
Please cooperate or they may just decide to shut the study down.
I need to hear from those of you who have already done this. I hope we can
somehow integrate your samples into the study, but you are making it
difficult to coordinate. If I do not know who you are, we will not have
the right information in the system and you will lose out.
Do not think you can enter the project and not tell anyone and that you
will benefit from it. It does not work that way. Everyone has to
cooperate and work together for us to achieve the results we need to
achieve. Don't be concerned that since they are in your area you have to
go or lose out. We won't let anyone who wants to participate be disappointed.
Now, those of you who contributed to the Wells study, except Richard and
Leigh, who I know about, PLEASE contact me and let me know who you are.
Orin R. Wells
Wells Family Research Association
P. O. Box 5427
Kent, Washington 98064-5427
<ORWells(a)bigfoot.com>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wellsfam/wfrahome.html
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