Re: Pruitt - Chisholm connection?
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Pruitt - Chisholm connection?
Ritchie Pruitt 5/19/10
Hi Ritch.
This match up with the big I1 group of Clan Chisholmmeans only that your share a common ancestor with the progenitor of this group.37 markers is not really enough to say with great certainty when this common ancestor lived,whetherhe was a post 1066 Norman in England, a re 1066 Norman in Normandy, or a pre Norman Viking from Scandinavia. I see that anothersurname Pruitt has tested to 67 markers, and he is off the radar when it comes to matches at that level, meaning the match is less than 60/67. If the match is close to this level then the post 1066 common ancestor is plausible, but it could still be a pre Invasion common ancestor. If the gap is wider then there is no certainty that your Pruitt ancestor entered Britain via the Norman conquest, although it is likely that the Chisholm ancestor and the Pruit ancestor were of the same Norman blood cluster.See if you ncan contact the Pruitt who tested to Y67 and go onto Y search to find 67 marker comparisons with Chisholms. Or alternately contact me via the FTDNA link on the Chisholm DNA project and I can send you the representative Chisholm markers up to 67.
All that notwithstanding, there may a Chisholm -Pruitt link somewhere, but such a link would be a random co-incidence. I feel very sure that the common ancestral link is in the era before surnames. There are a few "other surname"candidates who could be from the Chisholm progenitor after the establishment of the family in the Scottish Borders during the reign of King David, but these are showing up around the 60-61-62 /67 matching level.
Regards
Robert Chisholm
Administrator of Clan Chisholm DNA Project
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Ritchie Pruitt 5/23/10
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Robert Chisholm 5/23/10
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Re: Pruitt - Chisholm connection?