Re: Updates
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Re: Updates
Clyde Rice 12/20/06
Hi Clyde,
As far as I know no one from the Irish Royse / Royce line has been tested. I'm unfamiliar with Royce relatives even in Canada ( Ottawa Valley region ) from about the turn of the last century on, so I don't really know who is who now. In addition to Thomas of Ireland, descendants of Evan Royce of CT and Archibald Royce of NY apparently settled in the same general area, not to mention a whole host of different Rice families, so it's hard to figure out who descends from who on the basis of the surname.
Gathering Y-haplotypes for Royces who live in or around Stamford sounds like a great idea, particularly if the testees can trace their ancestry back to one of the Midlands lineages posted earlier. Theory and practice are two different things here, though, and I've found it's often hard if not impossible to find willing participants, if only due to expense ( even reduced rates seem expensive if the subject you've managed to find isn't that interested in genealogy ). I don't know if e.g. the RFA has funds to allocate to this sort of thing, but if you can find Royces living in the UK who would be willing to have their Y-DNA tested at no cost to themselves then that would make for a good experiment.
I just checked the Stamford telephone directory and there are no Royces living there now, although there are about 20 listed for Lincolnshire collectively and only 2 currently listed for Rutland. I can send you the whole Royce directory for England if you're up for it. Probably what you would want to do is mail out project information, see how many responses you get back in the affirmative ( and how many people readily know who their Royce ancestor from 106 years ago was ) and from there see what kind of budget you'd be dealing with if the kits were sent out. If RFA can also get reduced rates en masse with ERA then that works out to about $100 per testee with the 12-marker tests – so in that case you'd probably first want to see which Royce patriarchs in the area are / are not a match for one another outright using the 12-marker test, with any apparent match to Robert or Edmund Rice's haplotype to be followed by a 25- or 37-marker test, which could probably get approval for funding relatively fast. If you do get the go-ahead I can work out the ancestry for Royces who can trace their surname ancestors back to at least 1901 in the event that their own connections haven't been posted.
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Clyde Rice 12/21/06
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Charles Julian 12/22/06
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