Before They Sailed: Mayflower DNA

Thank you, for finding AND posting this, Justin!!! I have just "signed up" / offered myself, to be a Mayflower Guiniea Pig!!!
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It has to be mtDNA (your maternal line goes back to a Mayflower passenger) or Y-DNA (paternal line ...)

Neither is the case for me :)

My biological mother (and her brother) are related to God and the World (including William Brewster, through to his daughter Patience), through their/our Grosvenor/Whitney lineage... so, it would be mtDNA, for me. :-)
They're also, looking for cousins of Mayflower passengers (which would mean I also, can offer/have Myles Standish, John Cooke, Warren, Hopkins, Bradford, White and more) and not only direct descendants!
So, maybe, there is still something in there for you, too, Hatte. ;-) <3

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I am having my DNA done thru Nat Geo Genorme 2.0 thru the maternal line. Should get the results back within 10 weeks. I am hoping i will be able to read it. I am also allowing them to use my DNA in their ongoing project to map paths used by our deep ancestors. Will be happy to share it with the group

thanks. I might not be of much help here. Kitty Munson Cooper could explain more... I am a dna beginner.. I had my autosomnol tested at ancestry.com but a I am not sure what to make about it and B am not sure this would be of help because it would involve testing mom and not sure she'd be willing.. and also interbreeding could some one explain that? the southworth paper trail to him i have says that his son married a female southworth which I connect to but I also connect to him thru his daugther (elizibeth) so 11th ggf or 11th great uncle?

I'm not a direct line, but it will be nice to validate part of the relationships I do have through DNA. :)

you see Me 1984 Michelle mccann my mum 1953 Donald Lapoint 1927-2012 (grandfather) Marion lapoint 1896-1992 (great grandma) J.g douglas 1870-1906 (2nd great grandma) sgt ogilvie southworth 1834-1916 (3rd great grandfather) Samuel southworth 1800-1875 4th great grand father chester south worh 1764-1817 5th great grandfather
Josiah southworth 1719-1791 6th great grandfather
Nathaniel Southworth, Sr. 1692-1731 7th great grandfather (path to john alden from here rebecca souuthworth nathaniel's mom elizibeth (pabodie?) her mom daugther of john alden I also connect to david son of john because the southworth men's line goes further back and one of the daugthers mary (nathaniel sr cpt william southworth son of ensign constant southworth and elizibeth southworth (collier) His sister would be mary southworth (alden) she would mary david son of john. So there fore john alden would be both my 11th great uncle and 10th great grandfather right?

Thanks, Theresa Renee. I'm a Mayflower cousin (no direct lines) several times over, and sometimes through "up tree" in England (or so Geni says).

My first cousin did Geno 2.0 testing so we'll see where that intersects.

Yes, Michael, that should/would make you a direct descendant and an indirect one! lol! (That's also, a prime example of generation collapse, at work! And we ALL have that, in our lineages!) ;-)

Your welcome, Erica! I could've sworn, you were a descendent, from one of them, though!!! :-/ Will be great to compare that DNA, of your cousin. I'll bet, latest then, one of them, will pop up!!! ;-)

Susan, I was looking at that Nat Geo project (as the Grosvenor's who are the founders of the National Geographic Society and Magazine, are also, in my blood lines!) sounds fascinating and I look forward to you sharing, not only your findings, but your experiences!

Here's where they mentioned that they will not only be comparing direct descendants. And I quote (copy and paste)
"Following the DNA

The DNA falls into three Mayflower categories: descendants, genetic cousins and genetic ancestors."

I have a direct line to Samuel Fuller, Edward`s son, who married Jane Lathrop, but thru my father`s line, he is my 10th great grandfather, so i guess there is not much i can do there

I've got Brewster, Cooke & Hopkins thru my father's line. Think I should pass this on to my brother, though.

I'm of the Howland line Rosemary Bridges Berman

Sounds like a worthwhile. I will contribute DNA information and anything else I can.
I am from Bradford and Bradstreet lines y-dna done ftdna and Geno 1.0&2.0

Well, it'll be interesting to see whether or not he can raise $49,645 or more for his kickstarter campaign in the next 24 days. I descend from 5 of the surnames listed, but not in a direct yDNA or mtDNA line. My guess is the likely big donors will be direct y or mt DNA descendants, provided they learn of the project in the next month.

I have signed up. Thomas Rogers is my 11th ggrandfather and Henry Samson is my 10th ggrandfather. My husband is also a direct descendant John Alden 9th ggrandfather and Priscilla Mullins is his 9th ggrandmother.
This study will be very interesting.

This is great news

Hope I'm not intruding here but has anyone heard of the Mayflower Barn in England? Supposedly a building built form wood salvaged from the original Mayflower.

Yes, I have heard of it! And I believe there are some interesting other artifacts about the ship Mayflower associated with the property / papers of William Vassals, the shipmaker.

Here's a notice that they're starting with Stephen Hopkins, "Mayflower" Passenger.

http://originhunters.blogspot.com/2015/02/mayflower-dna-data-collec...

Origin Hunters is "looking for descendants of Stephen Hopkins who have their autosomal DNA tested and entered into Gedmatch"

@ iva tennison
I am a direct descendant of William Bradford. I am related to Fuller, White and Winslow passengers. I have completed Family Tree DNA [mtDNA].

Yes the Barn is near Burham in Bucks Alan

Researching the record of my great-grandfather Dublis Wilkins as recoreded in 1880 Louisiana census.

Lawrence Wilkinson
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of Avoyelles Parish, Bayou Rouge/Evergreen, Louisiana USA.

The notice about Stephen Hopkins is gone because the work have been completed and a paper published. I offered my autosomal DNA (4 lines of descent) but don't know if it was used. The paper can be seen at https://www.academia.edu/11961379/Autosomal_Haplotypes_and_the_Gene...

Thanks, Fred. The link doesn't work for me. I found it by googling the title. Then, got the same url you posted. Apparently they don't want people sharing links quite so easily ;)

How I found the paper: I went to the original link to the blog and found it was gone (but it seems to be back now). To the right of the blank space was an ad for OriginsConnector. That web site has a link to "Papers". The 1st of 3 papers is the one on Stephen Hopkins and autosomal DNA: "Autosomal Haplotypes and the Genetic Reconstruction of Family Trees". All the papers are by Mike Maglio. It seems that OriginsConnector ( http://www.originsconnector.com/ ) is a new company based on these finding which (for a fee) will tell you if one of your ancestors is confirmed by DNA. They already have about 1000 names they can check.

I picked up on the Mayflower reference;m I am a Cousens on my father's side but on my mother's side there is one Thomas English, who sailed in the Mayflower to command a coastal ferry, but died in the first winter.
Jon Cousens
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Looking over the papers by the author it seems like he is breaking some new ground in DNA assisted genealogy, which if true is pretty cool for all of us.