Interesting. I've had no Cooley auDNA matches yet.
-Michael
> Great work Michael.
>
>
> Cousins from my 3rd Great-Grandfather James Cooley are very frequently
> revealed from my autosomal DNA test at Ancestry.com. Except in one case
> all
> are women. None know anything about James' father John. James evidently
> did
> not talk much to his children about his father's roots. Too bad!
>
> -Don
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Michael Cooley
> <michael_at_newsummer.com>wrote:
>
>> Some of you may know that there are two Cooley families in the Cooley
>> DNA
>> Project that are of Y-DNA haplogroup R1a (other than the WHC and James
>> Cooleys who are close matches to us). One of the members of CF04 has
>> tested L448. They don't have that marker. But the R1a admins have
>> predicted that they have Z284. That would mean the common paternal
>> ancestor for us and them would have lived in the neighborhood of 2400
>> years ago!
>>
>> I've been working largely on three chapters: the chapter for William
>> Matthews Cooley, for the WHC and James Cooley "cluster," and Chapter
>> Three, which will talk in detail about the genetic evidence. I'm gearing
>> up right now, though, for six OLLI classes/seminars that I'll be
>> teaching,
>> the first one in three weeks. I also gave a presentation for the history
>> conference at HSU last weekend. So, I need to set aside much of the work
>> on the book. But once I get going again, I'll should have those three
>> chapters done in pretty quick succession of one another.
>>
>> -Michael
>>
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>>
>
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Administrator, the Akins DNA Project
Administrator, the Ashenhurst DNA Project
Administrator, the Bishop DNA Project
Administrator, the Eldridge DNA Project
Administrator, the alt-McDowell DNA Project
Co-Administrator, the Cooley DNA Project
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B.A. Humboldt State University, History
Received on Tue Apr 08 2014 - 13:48:54 CDT