My results are in. Not sure how to relate any of it to the Cooley line. My halagroup shows as H1b.
Gloria
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From: Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
To: John Cooley Mailing List <undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 1:39 AM
Subject: Re: 23andMe
Jim,
I'm late getting an email out to the CF04 group about the Yorkshire
discovery. I'm hoping they'll be motivated toward that end.
The CFAA has donated funds to this whole recent project, namely defining
the early American Cooleys via the Y. I'm getting close to completing the
to-do list but may not have an opportunity to redefine the effort until we
meet in SLC in 2014. But, besides that, I've yet to correspond with a
Cooley in England. I'm going to start concentrating on that pretty soon,
though.
We shouldn't get too excited about the Yorkshire connection, although it
is a good starting point and remains the only lead we have. We're also
R1a1a, but our STRs are strikingly different from CF04. (Only 8 of 12
markers match.) And then we can't can't find an SNP definition any more
recent than 6,000 years!
But...an optimistic side note. The William Henry Cooley descendant
(#239164)... has agreed to upgrade to 67 markers. Will the results begin
to diverge...or not..that is the *new* question!
(I've confirmed a 3rd cousin through 23andMe on my dad's mom's side. That
doesn't help the Cooley effort but may help relieve one of my more recent
brickwalls! The other 990 "cousins" don't look too promising, though.)
-Michael
> I'm sorry to hear that the results, so far, are not what you had hoped
> for, but I appreciate your
> taking a chance on it. Like you said, only time will tell but if the
> last few years are any
> indication it won't be long before another recalculation and the compass
> points us in a new
> direction. Has the CFAA been involved in any new discoveries or
> projects? Would there
> be any interest in coordinating a search of Cooley descendants in
> Yorkshire or southern
> Scotland? Perhaps there would be a better response generated if the
> CFAA got behind the
> effort . ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>
> On 4/8/2013 6:25 PM, Michael Cooley wrote:
>> The Y-DNA SNP called M198, which is about 6,000 years old, appears to be
>> the best resolution we can get for now. M417, which I tested negatively
>> for, is the only known subclade of M198. (I had hoped for its presence
>> since it breaks off into a number of branches.) Instead, we're in a sort
>> "everything else" bucket. So, we're definitely not of the haplogroup
>> R1a1a1--just R1a1a. There will probably be an R1a1a2, etc discovered one
>> day, but we're not there yet.
>>
>> I did a search in Family Finder for several of my surnames, but only one
>> has come up--the only one that is designated as a possible 2nd
>> cousin--and
>> the designation makes sense. Hopefully, I'll make contact with the
>> individual.
>>
>> So far, I find 23andMe a mixed bag. It has provided no new information
>> on
>> the Y and, despite 991 "cousins," there appears to be little benefit in
>> FF
>> (that could change as I explore it), and there was little in the medical
>> stuff that I found of interest. However, the mtDNA upgrade pretty much
>> made the $99 worth it.
>>
>> I'll transfer the test results to FTDNA.
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>>
>>> Most, but not all, of my 23andMe results are in. It lists 991
>>> "cousins!"
>>> It's going to take a long time to go through.
>>>
>>> My Y haplogroup is given as R1a1a, which is what we already know. I
>>> have
>>> to look further, but presence of the M417 mutation would make us
>>> R1a1a1,
>>> so I'm guessing it wasn't present. The test I'm waiting for at
>>> FTDNA--presence of the L448 marker ("New Scandinavian")--then should
>>> also
>>> turn up negative since it's downstream of M417.
>>>
>>> I did get better resolution of my mtDNA--H1a1.
>>>
>>> More as I comprehend it.
>>>
>>> -Michael
>>>
>>
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