Thanks, Lois. Sorry for my tardy response to you and the others. I've been
pretty much offline the last 24 hours--just taking care of other business.
Your line certainly does look correct. We have a least one other
descendant of Stephen on board.
-Michael
On Sat, August 8, 2015 20:28, Lois Cooley 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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- 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
Received on Sun Aug 09 2015 - 17:55:31 CDT