Thanks for the meeting summary Michael. I'm glad you had a good time.
Thanks for the links.
BTW, my latest Y-DNA SNP result came back from FTDNA last week - I tested
positive for YP355 - no surprise as you did too. But now we know with
certainty our Cooleys are on the R1a-YP355 branch. We're geetting closer to
recent times. I wonder where YP355 mutation took place. In what is now
Norway (like L448) or the British Isles? And when exactly?
Now that the BigY test at FTDNA has dropped $100, I'm considering taking
it. (Although it's still rather expensive.) Do you think it's worth it, or
should I wait a year or two and let it drop another one or two hundred
dollars? Have any other male Cooleys taken this test yet? Would we learn
anything really useful beyond our current SNP by SNP approach? I've heard
it's hard to make sense of the massive flood of data it yields - FTDNA
gives no help what-so-ever to understanding it. And if only one Cooley
takes it I've heard its almost useless. (As the mutations they find could
be mine and mine alone - even my dad maybe wouldn't have them.) Anyway,
I'd like to hear opinions on this.
-Don
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
wrote:
> We had a great time in Salt Lake City. The weather was *perfect*. Everyone
> stayed at the Plaza Hotel next to the Family History Library. We went to a
> rehearsal of the Tabernacle Choir Thursday evening. Because the
> sister-in-law of the CFAA president sang with it for 17-plus years (she
> retired last spring) we were able to meet the choir's director beforehand.
> The rehearsal took place in the 21,000-seat Convention Center, just two
> blocks away from the hotel.
>
> Greg Parker, the other admin of the DNA project, and I had lunch together
> twice and sat next to one another during the banquet. I enjoyed immensely,
> as I did two years ago, talking with him. Friday night, David Cooley, the
> former president, Patty Cooley of San Mateo, a descendant of the
> Cooley-Lippincott line (who *loved* the new DNA findings), and I spent the
> evening in a wine bar. (Whoopee!)
>
> At the business meeting Saturday, I was promoted from 2nd VP to VP, David
> Cooley and Patty Cooley were voted into the new "at-large" board
> positions, and Randy Smith was given the new board position of Past
> President.
>
> It's customary every ten years for the CFAA to meet in Longmeadow, MA
> where immigrant Benjamin Cooley lived. I suggested two years ago that we
> meet on the West Coast. That was discussed lightly during the business
> meeting but I *think* there's a broad consensus that it's a good idea for
> 2018. I'll suggest to Patty--the San Mateo resident--that we begin
> researching soon so that we can make a strong recommendation for it in two
> years.
>
> Most of the attendees this year were descendants of not only Benjamin
> Cooley but of Andrew Wood Cooley, an early immigrant to Utah. In fact, the
> Cooley/Lippincott descendant (and the spouses) and I were the only
> non-Benjamin Cooleys there. Because the Longmeadow meeting will also tend
> to be strongly Benjamin-biased, I suggested that its location might be a
> good opportunity to appeal to some of the Southern (and other) Cooley
> clans to attend. We'll see how that goes. (BTW, one does not need to be a
> member to attend the reunions.)
>
> Although it might not make a great deal of sense without the audio part of
> my presentation, here are the slides from it (by far best viewed with
> Chrome):
>
> http://ancestraldata.com/Presentations/cfaa2014/slides/title.html
>
> Here is the handout:
>
> http://ancestraldata.com/Presentations/cfaa2014/cfaa2014_successes.pdf
>
> I had a blast!
>
> -Michael
>
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> Administrator, the Bishop DNA Project
> Administrator, the Eldridge DNA Project
> Administrator, the Fisk DNA Project
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