Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:00:44 -0230 (NDT)
From: dapike@math.mun.ca (David Pike)
To: PIKE-DNA-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [PIKE-DNA] A Quick Update


Greetings.

This is a quick update about recent developments with the Pike DNA Project:

1. Possibly the biggest news in this email is that we've got our first participant to
   join via the NGS Genographic Project.  This person's results are now listed on our
   project's "Results" page at

   http://www.math.mun.ca/~dapike/family_history/pike/DNA/index.php?content=results.html

   with kit number N8337.  Only markers 1-12 are available (because that's all that the
   Genographic Project tests for).  Nevertheless, this new person's results are different
   enough that we can be pretty sure that he's from yet another Pike line... so we now
   have 9 or 10 different lines represented within the project.


2. Several days ago I updated the "Participants & Pedigrees" page to add some indication
   of where each person's Pike ancestors lived.  For people who are browsing the website,
   this might help them to hone in on those pedigrees that are likely to be of most interest
   to them (rather than requiring that they view everybody's pedigree in order to figure out
   which of the participants' lines might have been in a certain location).


3. There are now 2 people on the project's waiting list, waiting for contributions to the
   sponsorship fund to be made.  One of these has ancestry that has been traced back to
   a Hugh Pike who was born in 1657 in Massachusetts, while the other goes back to a
   Lyman Pike who was born in 1826 in New York (but whose father is believed to be
   a Joseph Pike from Vermont).


Meanwhile, test results for another participant should come out sometime in the next
couple of weeks.

- David.