Thanks, Shirley. See my response to David Lewis.
-Michael
On Sun, August 9, 2015 05:44, Shirley Wilcox wrote:
> This is to let you know I received your email.
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> Shirley Wilcox
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> On 8/8/2015 10:35 PM, Michael Cooley wrote:
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>> 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:
>>
>>
>> http://ancestraldata.com/staging/cooley-hackett-SNP.html
>>
>>
>> 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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Akins, Ashenhurst, Bishop, Eldridge, Fisk, alt-McDowell, Cooley,
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2013 - Instructor, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at HSU
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