----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Terca" <sharonterca(a)hotmail.com>
To: <straube(a)earthlink.net>; <WELLS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: January 20, 2003 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Zachariah Wells] Re: Cluster analysis of Wells DNA data
I don't understand any of this....I just read an article in the
Heritage
Quest magazine that said that the military uses the mtDNA only when they
are
identifying unknown soldiers. The only males that are used are
brothers.
Lying in bed, last night, I tried to figure a rational reason to it and
couldn't come up with any. Can any of you figure it out?
By the way, I am using a computer at the library, so I don't post much
lately, and I am in Santa Maria, CA, now, instead of Ft. Myers, FL, and
guess what they have...............the "Genealogical Abstracts of
Revolutionary Ware Pension Files". Anyone want a look up, let me know and
I
will get back to you as soon as possible.
Sorry about only sending it to you, Patricia, but I thought it was going
to
the whole list................it IS now
Shari
Researching Surnames: Wells, Talbot, Thornborough, McFadden, Jones, Hurd,
Terca, Trcka, Sullivan, Clark, Brenton, Pointer, White, Eckels/Eckles,
Jester, Hougan, Dillin, Dillon, Dustin, Caudle, Owings, Price, and many
many
more...
I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
>From: "Patricia Straube" <straube(a)earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: "Patricia Straube" <straube(a)earthlink.net>
>To: ZachariahWells-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: Re: [Zachariah Wells] Re: Cluster analysis of Wells DNA data
>Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:09:11 -0800
>
>Orin wrote:
> > For the females, the only equivalent is the Mitrochondrial DNA or
MtDNA
> > which is passed from the mother to each of her children.
The rest of
>the
> > DNA is passed pretty much 50% from the father and 50% from the mother
>and
> > gets diminished each generation. With the MtDNA the mutations come
much
> > less frequently. So for any given pattern there are a LOT
of people
> > running around and it is very difficult to play this into genealogical
> > research. Add to that the fact we seldom are able to track strictly
> > maternal lines you can get the idea.
>
>Seldom, but not never. I was very fortunate to find a direct maternal
line
>back to Eve, Eve SEIDELMANN, that is, wife of Andreas GAAR of the
Second
>Germanna Colony of Virginia. Eve was b: 23 Feb 1684/1685 in
Illenschwang,
>Bavaria, Germany A couple of years ago I discovered my
mother's mother,
>Beatrice Amelia CALLON ( a descendant of both Aaron WELLS and Robert
WELLS,
>by the way), in the Garr Genealogy. Her own maternal grandmother
had been
a
>brick wall for me because she had died when her children were
young.
Here's
>how it worked out: Beatrice Amelia CALLON, daughter of Louisa
Margarette
>LOUTT, daughter of Mary Ann CLEM, daughter of Margaret CRIGLER, daughter
of
>Catherine CRISLER, daughter of Rosina GAAR, daughter of Eve
SEIDELMANN.
>Fortunately, the Gaar (or Garr as it is usally spelled today) researchers
>have been busy and I've gotten beyond Eve to her mother, Barbara WAMBACH,
>daughter of Barbara EISEN, born sometime in the early 17th century.
>
>I also went to my Aaron Wells and Ruth Wiggins database and did a "Female
>Descendants Only" Report which would show those with Ruth Wiggins' MtDNA.
>It
>ran to over 23 pages! Of course a lot of lines "sonned out" but there
were
>still quite a few living people, including males, who though they
can't
>pass
>on Ruth's DNA, still carry it themselves.
>
>Patricia
>
>
>
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