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From: "Robin Pyatt Bellamy" <>
Subject: Re: [PIATT] DNA dialogue?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:15:59 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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Laverne, you are so impatient! (She and I have been chatting a bit about
this over the last few weeks)

This is one of the items that will eventually be included on the piatt site
as well. Im in the process of ammassing information and links to include.
If anyone has any input please post it here or send it to me at


Im a big proponent of doing this dna research. Ive attended a couple of
lectures and read a LOT of information. I certainly think this is one thing
we should explore as a group. I would want to include the Chicago Pyatts
(who trace directly to the UK) and the Canadian Pyatts (of relatively
unknown origin) in the study as well--I have contact with both these lines
off list via the website.

The biggest thing that concerns me is the cost. Last I heard it was in the
hundreds. Has the cost come down? Can we apply for grant money as a group
under the piattresearchers.net blanket? It is my intention to use that site
as a legitimate research group (and getting nonprofit status when the need
arises) and as a research group it would seem to me we should qualify for
some grant or another. Anyone on the list familiar with grant writing? I
will help in any way I can.

The tecnology is no longer obscure. Most states have labs that can do the
work and there are many online opportunities.

Im in when the cost is reasonable! (and by the way, the test is
painless--dna can be extracted from saliva samples or hair instead of blood)

Robin

-------Original Message-------

From:
Date: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:59:56 AM
To:
Subject: [PIATT] DNA dialogue?

Over last weekend I attended a meeting of the Monroe Co Chapter of the Ohio
Genealogical Society where Harley Dakin spoke of his involvement in the
Cline
Family DNA study. I found his account fascinating and have been thinking
about
it this week in terms of whether a similar study might be able to assist the

Piatt/Pyatt/Pyeatt family.

--snip--

Y-DNA is that passed from father to son, to son, to son, and so on. It
changes
slowly over a long period of time. Analysis of the Y-DNA of two men can tell
if
they had a common male ancestor and can also give a range of generations in
which
that common ancestor is likely to have lived. The higher the number of
markers
in the DNA test and the higher the number of matches of markers between the
DNA
sequences of the individuals, the more recently the commmon ancestor is
found in
their lines.

Let's think of the dead ends we have in Piatt research. Charles and Elijah
are
the earliest found in NY, Benjamin and William in Augusta Co VA. Were these
four
men brothers? If Y-DNA of direct male descendants of these four individuals
are
sequenced and have sufficient identical markers, then the answer is yes that

these four would be brothers or cousins as they would share a common male
ancestor.

--snip--
Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH
lapiatt@.att.net


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