Regarding the Big Y, the information may be there, it just needs to be
interpreted. Apparently, FTDNA is very slow in looking at them. The CF02
.bam file has been uploaded to yfull.com. We'll see what happens with
that. The admin for P312 told me, though, not to expect much.
-Michael
On Mon, January 26, 2015 13:00, Cooley wrote:
> That last part is indeed interesting! Check out what Wikipedia said about
> poet Abraham Cowley (born in London in 1618) and see his photo at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Cowley . He died 28 July 1667.
>
>
> Regarding a previous email, I was disappointed the Big-Y test doesn't
> yield as much info as I thought. Maybe we should just get men who live in
> the UK with a last name of Cooley (or variants like Cowley) to do a 37
> marker Y-DNA test. (A 37 marker Y-DNA STR test is always enough to tell if
> a man is related to our Cooleys.)
>
> Don
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> The last bit is interesting.
>>
>>
>> --quote--
>> Hi Michael, interesting story! My family doesn't originate from the
>> Derbyshire county. My parents were both Irish immigrants, who settled in
>> the city of Derby during WW2. As far as I'm aware, there are two main
>> Cowley families in Derby, and both of the lines originate from Southern
>> Ireland. I don't know of any Cooley's to hand, but as a rather
>> intriguing historic note the famous 17th century poet Abraham Cowley was
>> pronounced Cooley, so the genealogy plot thickens!
>> --endquote--
>>
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>
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