Re: We vote Yes! for the Bird DNA project!
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Re: We vote Yes! for the Bird DNA project!
Linda Bird 8/02/05
I wanted to let you know that my first cousin recently completed the DNA testing process. After reading a posting I made earlier about our plans to participate, I was contacted by a researcher with whom I corresponded a number of years ago (back in the snailmail era). He was very interested in establishing his link to our ancestor Andrew Bird (b. 1695) of Berks Co., Pa. and later Smith Creek, Augusta Co., Virginia. Both he and my cousin did DNA testing with Family Tree DNA (FTDNA). One is a descendant of Andrew Bird II(b. 1727) and the other a descendant of Mounce Bird (b. 1733), brother to Andrew II. The results showed a close relationship and a high probability of a shared common ancestor within the past 300 years...right on target. This result verifies our traditional genealogy research on both lines. The men tested are 6th cousins, once removed.
Other Bird/Byrd/Burd researchers should be aware that results also showed that there was no relationship to Andrew Bird of Long Island and New Jersey.
The two matches for the descendants of Andrew Bird (b. 1695) establish a lineage for Andrew Bird (1695) to which other Bird/Byrd/Burd descendants can compare DNA results. Since a descendant of Andrew Bird of Long Island has also submitted test results, you can compare DNA results to that line and to several other Bird lines as well. At this time there are four established Bird lineages with two or more matching DNA results each and numerous individual results still waiting for matching DNA to be submitted. You can check out the current status of the Byrd Project (all variations of the name) at the site below (our results are B-19 and B-20):
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/b/byrd/results.htmlhttp://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/b/byrd/results.html
We're hoping that more descendants of Andrew Bird will want to submit DNA test samples and help us build a more complete database of DNA information and help us move past this brick wall to the next generation back.
Sherry Johnson