I just wanted to mention that I did the Family Finder test on FTDNA and my kit is 324385. I've also been offered a free test for Ancestry.com's version, which I believe is slightly different.
I've also uploaded the FTDNA matches to gedmatch.com. My name appears as Cynthia Lee Nottingham on that site.
I'm still trying to figure out gedmatch.com. It seems like a very powerful tool!
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 19:32:40 -0600
> From: michael_at_newsummer.com
> To: undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net
> Subject: autosomes
>
> We know from 23andme test results that Gloria (a descendant of Perrin
> Cooley) and Jack (a descendant of Perrin C Cooley) has a significant
> autosomal match. Others have tested in order to find out more about the
> match and whether it *really* comes down the Cooley side. Unfortunately,
> Jack has yet to reveal his results, so we're unable to conduct the needed
> comparisons. (I'm pretty certain that his only hesitation is derived from
> being very busy.)
>
> Gloria, her mom, I and my dad have our results uploaded to gedmatch.com I
> know that others do also. There's no fee for uploading to this site, which
> is recommended because of the excellent tools they have. I propose that we
> start a semi-formal autosomal project among the descendants of John Cooley
> and suspected allied lines. I'll create a password-protected page where
> I'll record our names. GEDMATCH IDs and lineages.
>
> On GEDMATCH it's possible to conduct searches for small matches. The
> problem is that even *many* small matches may mean nothing at all. Indeed,
> although most of John's descendants may have some fragments of his
> autosomal DNA, it's entirely possible that none of us have matching "John
> segments." The problem is that the autosomal DNA for any one ancestor
> becomes fragmented with each generation--and it fragments differently
> (different chunks) down each line. And because we can share as many as 16
> ancestors at only the 5th generation, it can be a challenge to determine
> with certainty to which ancestor matching results should be assigned.
>
> Nevertheless, the Gloria/Jack match is encouraging, and we may learn
> something significant from it.
>
> Any John Cooley descendant--or those who reasonably expect to be descended
> (such as Shirley Wilcox), or those who look to be of a collateral line,
> such ans the William Henry Cooley descendants--are encouraged to
> participate. If you have auDNA results, just upload them to GEDMATCH and
> send the username to me. If you haven't tested, I recommend 23andme.com,
> although test results from ancestry.com and ftdna.com work.
>
> Happy to answer any questions.
>
> -Michael
>
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