He got linked the way so many do--amateur genealogists making wild
guesses. There was plenty of circumstantial evidence to show a possible
relationship, but I've never seen anything resembling a paper trail.
This is pretty solid--three separate DNA sources pointing to the same
source. But more work needs to be done.
-Michael
On Wed, July 23, 2014 3:25 pm, Cooley wrote:
> This is indeed interesting. The Cooley Y-DNA spreadsheet says Daniel
> Cooley's terminal SNP is M-269, which is in haplogroup R1b, not our R1a.
> So
> they are extremely far removed from our Cooleys (well over 10,000 years).
> So how did Daniel Cooley get labeled as a son of our John?
>
>
> On another topic, FTDNA finally offer a test of YP355 - so I ordered it.
> It
> is extremely likely I will test positive for it as you did Michael, but
> it's always good for at least two Cooleys to test for every important
> Y-DNA
> SNP.
>
>
> -Don
>
>
> P.S. What do you make of the 67 STR Marker Cochran match to us? I guess
> like the Whitfields, the Cochrans once had a common ancestor with us.
> Maybe
> over 1000 years ago before surnames. The surname Cochran is most common in
> Scotland.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> I think that we now have convincing evidence that Daniel Cooley was not
>> the son of John! The Cooley/Hardin tester matches 33/37 to the Daniel
>> tester. And the second tester now in CF13--who was from the same area
>> of Oregon as Daniel's tester--*looks* to be an exact match! (I haven't
>> yet done a *close* one-to-one connection.)
>>
>> More work certainly needs to be done, but I feel confident that Daniel
>> should be removed from the Stokes County tree.
>>
>> Congrats to the Cooley/Hardin crowd! If Daniel was not John's father,
>> he was probably an uncle. It's time to cast the DNA net wide to see who
>> else might be snared!
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>>
>> --
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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 Fisk DNA Project
>> Administrator, the alt-McDowell DNA Project
>> Co-Administrator, the Cooley DNA Project
>> Co-Administrator, the McDougall DNA Project
>> Co-Administrator, the Pickens DNA Project
>> Co-Administrator, the Strother DNA Project
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>>
>>
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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 Fisk DNA Project
Administrator, the alt-McDowell DNA Project
Co-Administrator, the Cooley DNA Project
Co-Administrator, the McDougall DNA Project
Co-Administrator, the Pickens DNA Project
Co-Administrator, the Strother DNA Project
Instructor, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
B.A. Humboldt State University, History
Received on Wed Jul 23 2014 - 14:44:06 CDT