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Subject: RE: [PIATT] Piatt Surname DNA study has begun
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 22:30:10 -0500 (EST)

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Subject: [PIATT] Piatt Surname DNA study has begun

Several weeks ago I posted a message to the PIATT-L list suggesting the
possibility of conducting a Piatt Surname DNA study and calling for discussion of
same. There was little discussion but a number of Piatt gentlemen decided to go
ahead with the study. Therefore, the Piatt Surname DNA study has begun. I have
volunteered to be the Project Coordinator.

The purpose of the study is to use science to confirm or deny a common male
ancestor among the various Piatt lines.

We invite any male with the surname of Piatt, Pyatt, Pyott, Pyeatt, Pyeatte,
Peatt, etc, to consider joining the DNA study. It is necessary to limit the
participants to males as it is the Y-DNA which will be studied. The Y-DNA is
passed virtually unchanged from father to son to son to son, and so on. If the
male descendant of a Piatt is not named Piatt this indicates a female in the line
between his Piatt ancestor and him. The presence of a female in the lineage
would break the passage of the Y-DNA and make the male descendant not named Piatt
ineligible.

More information is available at Family Tree DNA's website at:

http://www.familytreedna.com

So far participants have elected to have the 25 marker test run on their samples
which were sent to the lab in late December. We hope to have results within the
next few weeks.

Although females, even born Piatt, are not eligible to submit DNA samples they
may still participate by encouraging their Piatt fathers, brothers, or male
cousins to participate. It's even possible to "sponsor" a participant who is
less interested in research but willing to submit a DNA sample.

Collecting a sample is easy. It requires two swabs from the inside of the cheeks
taken 8 hours apart. No hair or blood is required for this sample. Payment can
be made to the company by check when the sample is returned.

If you want to join our study you may notify me to send you a "join code" which
will enable you to order the sampling kit yourself. Or you may ask that I, as
project coordinator, have a kit sent to you. If you choose to have me direct a
kit to you or another participant I would need the following information:

name of participant
mailing address of participant
phone number of participant
e-mail address of participant

The last two are for contact purposes only. If you are sponsoring someone else
you may want to supply your own phone and e-mail for notification of results. If
you don't want to do that my phone and e-mail can be the ones of record.

Privacy should not be a concern. Results will be posted to the company website
by a code number. Any sharing of results publicly can be identified as "the
representative of the line of Jacob Piatt (III) and Elizabeth Dunham" for
instance rather than by the participant's name.

In the near future I intend to post a message similar to this one to each of the
7 message boards for Piatt, etc, at Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com. Some of
those message boards are gatewayed to the PIATT-L list and will generate copies
of themselves to the PIATT-L list. You may ingore those messages as they will be
essentially the same as this one.

Questions can be directed to me at my preferred address:



Please consider helping us make this surname study representative of all the
Piatt, etc lines. Thanks.
--
Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH
lapiatt@.att.net



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