Michael, I did receive this email and do appreciate your interest and hard
work! I know practically nothing about this type of research (the SNP's
etc). I assume it would not be helpful for any of us females with Cooley
ancestry to get tested. But if I'm wrong, please let me know. I am
descended from James Cooley (1772-1821) through his daughter, Jemima, who
married Thomas Kirkland White.
Bonnie Wade Lillywhite
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Lois Cooley <loiscool_at_charter.net> wrote:
> Michael, I am receiving your emails. Not sure I follow all of this but one
> of these days I will figure it out. Thanks for doing all of this...
> Lois
> [married to Dennis Cooley, son of Robert Cooley (1917-2006), son of Louis
> Cooley(1897-1960), son of George Cooley (1871-1948, son of Abraham Cooley
> (1832-1895), son of Stephen (1805-1872), son of Edward (1763-1822) son of
> John (1740-1811) - according to my records]
>
> Lois Cooley
> Greer, SC 29651
> (864) 476-9585
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Cooley [mailto:michael_at_newsummer.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2015 10:36 PM
> 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:
>
> 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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