For those who are interested in participating in the special Wells DNA study:
There will be a DNA blood collection this weekend in San Diego, California.
If you live in this area and are interested in participating on Saturday
and/or have a relative you want to get into this, please contact me
directly for details. I am trying to get the Wells project accepted for
this collection, but it looks like a bit of a challenge because they want
more pedigree information than I am likely to be able to muster by that
time frame. But I will give it a try. To do so, I need to know who is
wanting to participate and I will need your pedigree information via a
GEDCOM if I don't already have it.
When you go to the collection, you will need to take with you two copies of
your pedigree for 4 generations on paper. The format is at this webpage:
http://molecular-genealogy.byu.edu/pedigree.htm
I am encouraging everyone who participates to give a sample for the main
project (they will pay you $10 for this by the way) and a sample for the
Wells project. You would give one copy of the pedigree to each as well. I
also will want to know who contributed, when and where. We will get more
organized as we go along. But, I don't want to miss opportunities if we
can take advantage of them.
The next collection will be in Chico, California on November 17 and 18th
and in Washington, DC on the 18th.
On November 30th they will be collecting in Fruit Heights, Utah.
Please send me an e-mail if you are interested in one of these.
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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