Smalley DNA Database Project
To All Smalley Genealogy Researchers
I am so happy that I got involved this summer in the Smalley DNA Database Project. To reach the site, search www.familytreedna.com/
Then at the top of the page type in Smalley and you will reach the site. The administrator of the project is Tom Howland. You can email him from the site and if you provide a telephone number, he will call you to answer questions. You can also contact him at(215) 766-2126.
Obtaining the sample for the DNA test is quite simple.It involves only taking swabs from the inside of your facial cheek and then mailing this to the laboratory. The kit to do everything to obtain the sample is mailed to you and is easily done at your home.
We are most interested in the Y-Chromosome Marker Test which is done on Smalley males. That means males with the last name Smalley. The markers on the Y-Chromosome are passed from father to son to son, etc.The Y-chromosome is the chromosome that makes a person a male. We recommend the 37 Y-Chromosome marker test (cost $191) as that gives the best chance to really be able to gain knowledge from the test. The laboratory analysis takes about 6 weeks before you will get the results.
This is what we have discovered in a short period of time.
1.Edward Smalley/Small of Maine is not related to John Smalley who married Ann Walden. We have a DNA sample from a descendant of Benjamin and one from Daniel Smalley/Small, both are sons of Francis Smalley/Small and Elizabeth Leighton, son of Edward Smalley/Small which match each other. These two do not match the DNA from descendants of Jonathan Smalley and Sarah Bird.
2. A previous unconnected Smalley family which had been in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since the 1830's are probably the descendants of Jonathan Smalley Jr., son of Jonathan Smalley and Sarah Bird.This family had been in Cumberland County, New Jersey before Philadelphia. Previously for Jonathan Smalley Jr., we only knew his birth date in 1714 and that he was alive at the time of his father's will in 1762. This new knowledge is because a descendant of Andrew Smalley and Agnes Coriell, son of Jonathan Smalley and Sarah Bird matched Y-chromosome DNA with a descendant of this Philadelphia, Pennsylvania family.
3. O. C. Smalley born about 1797 in Pennsylvania and the patriarch of the Smalley family of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama matched Y-chromosome DNA with the Edward Smalley/Small family of Maine. So now we at least know the first two ancestors in America of O. C. Smalley. They would be Edward Smalley/Small through his son Francis Smalley/Small who married Elizabeth Leighton.
All of this is monumental progress in a very short period of time.I would encourage Smalley males from unconnected lines to obtain the DNA test as it may significantly aid in determining your ancestors. We also could use more samples from Smalley males who know their family line, so we can further document our DNA knowledge. I would be happy to communicate with anyone interested.
james smalley
[email protected]
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