It's good to hear from your Paula. Of course, your online posts were among
the first I found when doing online research for Cooley. So much has
happened in these several years.
-Michael
On Sun, August 9, 2015 11:27, ppost wrote:
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> Thanks for sorting out the family.Paula Post
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> Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 5
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>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
> Date: 08/08/2015 9:35 PM (GMT-06:00)
> To: John Cooley Mailing List <undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net>
> Subject: Big Y ordered
>
>
> I've ordered the Big Y, more than 10 million positions are tested looking
> for newly discovered SNPs (mutations). The Y-STRs we've looked at are
> great for determining general family groupings. We now know without
> reservation, for example, that our Cooley clan is not related to the
> Benjamin clan. But they don't tell us to what degree the Pennsylvania
> CF01s are related to us. We know from the Hackett results that the
> connection may go back several hundred years, perhaps more than a thousand.
>
>
> I've provided a graph I hope will aid in the understanding of this:
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> http://ancestraldata.com/staging/cooley-hackett-SNP.html
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>
> Just like genealogical trees, every point branches out, eventually
> resembling a tangled network than a hierarchical tree. But here we're
> following one branch down to about 1250 AD when the Cooley/Hackett line
> splits into two.
>
> The SNPs in the pink box were unknown until the Cooley/Hackett tests.
> More
> testers from other lineages are needed to discover how they are to be
> arranged (did YP4249 mutate before or after YP4210?). From all that we
> know about the relationship between Don and myself, I will have those
> same SNPs.
>
>
> But here's the good part: Most of the SNPs above Don's name also came to
> him through John, having came to John, in turn, since the development of
> the "pink" SNPs. (We know that because the Hackett tester has none of
> them.) When I test, most of my SNPs that are other than the pink and
> above will look like Don's unknown SNPs. Those we share will be given
> names and will be assigned as having belonged to John. We will then have a
> long line from way back to the birth of John. What's left will have come
> down to Don or me since the birth of John's sons James and Edward,
> respectively.
>
> What will this mean to our research? We'll have a list of markers from
> 1950 (my birth) and 1952 (Don's birth) going back to the literal Dawn of
> Man. Once one of the "Pennsylvania" Cooleys tests, we'll be able to place
> him along that continuum of SNPs. It wouldn't be a precise measurement, but
> it should tell us whether they are closely related (meaning what, I'm not
> sure) or displaced by X number of centuries.
>
> ONE UNRELATED ITEM: I made some changes to my email filters. I'm now
> getting a lot less spam but, it seems, fewer personal emails, too. I'd like
> some of you to respond to this, especially to my personal email address,
> to get a sense whether things are working correctly.
>
> -Michael
>
>
> - Administrator or Co-Administrator for the following family DNA
> projects:
> Akins, Ashenhurst, Bishop, Eldridge, Fisk, alt-McDowell, Cooley,
> McDougall, Pickens, Strother - B.A. Humboldt State University, History,
> 2013 - Instructor, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at HSU
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- Administrator or Co-Administrator for the following family DNA projects:
Akins, Ashenhurst, Bishop, Eldridge, Fisk, alt-McDowell, Cooley,
McDougall, Pickens, Strother - B.A. Humboldt State University, History,
2013 - Instructor, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at HSU
Received on Sun Aug 09 2015 - 18:18:40 CDT