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For more than a decade, I have been developing the theory that my great-great-great-great-grandmother, Dorothy (DYER) MINER, lastly of Greenwood, Steuben County, New York, was probably a daughter of James and Dorothy (WHITMARSH) DYER, originally of Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts and lastly of Plainfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. For more information, please see…
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~streeter/dyer.pdf
Unfortunately, conventional research has not yet yielded “the proof” to confirm this placement. However, definitive proof that Dorothy (DYER) MINER was the daughter of James and Dorothy (WHITMARSH) DYER could be obtained by comparing the Mitochondrial DNA of her living matrilineal descendants with the Mitochondrial DNA of living matrilineal descendants of Dorothy’s probable matrilineal ancestors:
Mary (GILMAN) (JACOB) (FOULSHAM/FOLSOM) BEAL/BEALES , wife of Nicholas-1 JACOB
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Deborah (JACOB) THOMAS, wife of Nathaniel-3 THOMAS Jr. (Nathaniel-2 Sr., William-1)
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Mary (THOMAS) (GARDNER) GOOLD, wife of Rev. James-1 GARDNER
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Dorothy (GARDNER) WHITMARSH, wife of Ezra-4 WHITMARSH (Ezra-3, John-2-1)
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Dorothy (WHITMARSH) DYER, wife of James-5 DYER (Joseph-4, William-3, Christopher-2, William-1)
If you have a well-documented and unbroken *matrilineal* (“umbilical”) line of descent from any of the women shown in this lineage, please contact me privately at perry@streeter.com, without fear of any further obligation. Mitochondrial DNA is only passed from mothers to their children so the only male that can exist in a line of descent for the purposes of this comparison must be the last living link in the chain. This situation is essentially the opposite of surname-based DNA projects which are based on the fact that the Y-Chromosome and the DNA it carries is only passed from fathers to sons; for more information on this topic please see…
http://www.familytreedna.com/inheritance-chart.aspx
A DNA-based approach to confirming that Dorothy (DYER) MINER was the daughter of James and Dorothy (WHITMARSH) DYER may sound far-fetched to some readers but that is exactly how Mike Morrissey and I confirmed the origins of another one of my “grandmothers.” The first-of-its-kind article that resulted was published in New Netherland Connections as:
Perry Streeter and Mike Morrissey, “Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Testing of Probable Eighth Cousins Confirms Their Kinship and Proves Their Matrilineal Lines of Descent from Aeltje Cornelis (COOL) (VAN COUWENHOVEN) STOOTHOFF; Simultaneously Proving Two Long-Held Theories Developed Sequentially Through Conventional Research; Mary (UPDIKE) RICHEY of Greenwood, Steuben County, New York Was a Heretofore Unidentified Daughter of Roliph-5 UPDIKE (John-4, Lawrence-3, Johannes-2, Louris-1 Jansen); Eleanor-5 "Nelly" LANE (Gizebert-4, Mathias-3, Gysbrecht-2 Laenen, Matthys-1 Jansen) Was the Heretofore Unidentified Wife of Roliph-5 UPDIKE” (April, May, June 2005; Volume 10, Number 2).
To read a version of this article, please see…
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~streeter/NNC/mtdna.pdf
Some living matrilineal descendants of Mary (GILMAN) (JACOB) (FOULSHAM/FOLSOM) BEAL/BEALES might be interested in scientifically confirming their descent from her because she was also the ancestor of Presidents George Herbert Walker BUSH and George Walker BUSH and an aunt of Presidents Abraham LINCOLN and Gerald FORD:
home.comcast.net/~pammysueb/DOCUMENTS/GILMAN_Pres.pdf
Thanks for your help!
Perry
Perry Streeter (perry@streeter.com)
www.perry.streeter.com
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