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From: "JOLENE KEELEY" <>
Subject: RE: [PIATT] DNA testing changes
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:49:48 -0700
In-Reply-To: <032220061747.24222.44218DC60006C2B400005E9E21602813029B9B0E079F0E04@att.net>


Hi... I am definitely planning on being in Doylestown. I am so inadequate
about searching but I am coming to see what I can be led to. Smile! Jolene


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>Subject: [PIATT] DNA testing changes
>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:47:52 +0000
>
>Family Tree DNA, the company we use for our Piatt Surname DNA study, has
>announced a new 59 marker Y-DNA test which will cost $269.
>
>Our study started with the 25 marker test, and although the 37 marker test
>has been available for some time, none of our participants has upgraded to
>37 markers.
>
>There has been a question of whether we would gain enough addition
>information from the extra markers to warrant the expense of the upgrade.
>I have not been urging the upgrade because the timeline for those who match
>at 25/25 is rather short. Documentation, circumstantial evidence and DNA
>results suggest that those who match at 25 descend from Rene Piatt who died
>in NJ in 1705. Individual Earliest Known Ancestors of our participants
>should be Rene's grandsons or great-grandsons. In order for the upgrade to
>be beneficial we would have to be "guaranteed" mutations in those
>additional markers (to indicating branching) to warrant the upgrade. I'm
>not sure that would occur in only two or three generations. In other
>words, if we upgraded to 37 and all matched 37/37 we would have no more
>information than we do now.
>
>With the introduction of the 59 marker test, FTDNA has also decided to
>scrap the 25 marker test, the one we have been using. Therefore, I would
>recommend any future participants order the 37 marker test, at $189, as the
>base test. (The 12 marker test is still available but doesn't tell much.)
>
>Since the 37 marker test would now be "standard," should any of the 25
>marker test participants want to upgrade to 37 markers, the upgrade is
>available for $49. Further information on all the tests, upgrades, and
>prices can be found at:
>
>http://www.familytreedna.com
>
>And here's a reminder about Piatt Research Conference in Doylestown PA,
>June 18-24, 2006. It's been a long, dreary winter and I haven't heard from
>many of you who I believe will be coming to conference. Please send me
>notice offlist at:
>
>
>
>if you are coming. We hope to see many of you there. It's a great
>location for searching those northern NJ counties and it isn't all that far
>over to Newark for the state historical society either.
>--
>Laverne Ingram Piatt
>Ontario, OH
>
>
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