Volume 14 , Issue 49

NW Okie's Corner

Gerald McLaughlin sent us this old 1807 map of the Virginia area that we wanted to share with those of you interested in Virginia's history and genealogy research. Hope you find it helpful and informing. I have also been busy doing some cleaning up of my familytree files and splitting my maternal and paternal files to separate files.

I heard from Carolyn Harman Scott, a descendant of Jacob Warwick and Mary Vance, last week concerning the Warwick's DNA Surname Project (Y-DNA Classic Chart), and what is going on with it. They have all of 9 donors on the male side and maybe 4 on the female side.

Carolyn also says, "DNA is a vey useful tool especially in trying to prove or disprove connections. It can point in a direction to look so you don't spend time on a dead end. They are very conclusive if there hasn't been a 'postman' involved. Then it gets interesting. Cost depends on how many markers tested. There are sales, and good ones at that, a couple times of year. For our purposes the minimum of 12 markers right now would suffice and that is pretty reasonable. One right now. You are correct in that what we are really looking for is a male to do the test. I found a William Massie Warwick to do a test which would be on Jacob Warwick/Mary Vance line."

check this out this LINK for more information on the Familytree DNA. Familytreedna is the oldest and has the largest data base. Ancestry had to complicate the picture by getting into the field. The problem with this is that they test for different markers so comparing the results is difficult.

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