At 10:58 PM 9/30/2003 -0400, AJWEYER(a)aol.com wrote:
Hi Orin,
I am a descendant of Zachariah Wells and have been studying the DNA
data trying to get a picture of it all. I have advanced the theory that
Thomas Wells (1653) of Prince George's County, Maryland may be the
ancestor of Zachariah, Aaron, Robert and Augustine Wells. I placed my
reasonings on the Zachariah Wells Rootsweb site. All I have to do now is
prove it.
This is actually not possible. I will also post this on the Zachariah
Wells site. The reason is this. All of the descendents of the group
included (except Thomas Wells of Maryland) have the unique marker at DYS394
with the dual result (12,15) and is very consistent between all the
branches that appear to be related and appears in NO other Wells
family. Additionally the ONLY other significant variation between those
who have tested into this family is at DYS437 where everyone (including the
descendants of Zachariah) have a value of 16 and those connected to Robert
Wells have a 15. Among the 21 samples there are only three single
variances that appear to be quite random and so far of no significance.
When you look at family W006 compared to the others, there are 14 variances
in the first 10 markers. 4 is enough for us to declare they are not
related for the past couple thousand years at least. Each numeric
difference counts as a variance so on marker DYS385a the difference of 11
versus 16 is 5. Also DYS389ii contains the values of DYS389 and thus
although you see a difference on both markers it really counts as
one. There are actually 21 individual markers that are different between
the two families out of 27. There is no way that there can be a connection
between the two families.
I emailed each of them to ask what there lineage was. Only Ken Wells
answered. Is there any way that you could give me the lineage of the other
two?
I can, but this is a red herring I am afraid.
I would only need the lineage from Thomas down to the 1850s or so. I
wouldn't want to invade anyone privacy. I am hoping that their lineages go
through the Orange County, North Carolina Wells.
They do.
It may end up being just a case of wishful thinking on my part but I
am
hoping to prove that Thomas is the proginator of the Wells clan.
Again, based on the DNA patterns there is just no way for this to be a
viable option. The genealogy can mislead, but the DNA will not. Nice
idea, sorry it does not look like it is possible.
Orin R. Wells
Wells Family Research Association
P. O. Box 5427
Kent, Washington 98064-5427
<OrinWells(a)wells.org>
http://www.wells.org
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