To: pike-dna-l@rootsweb.com
Subject: Some Recent News
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:15:38 -0230 (NDT)
From: dapike@math.mun.ca (David Pike)


Hi everybody.

We've had some exciting new results come out from the lab recently,
but before getting to them, I want to mention that our project
reached the milestone of 50 participants a few weeks ago (which
means that we've more than doubled in size since the start of the
year).

As for our recent results, a few weeks ago results for David C Pike
(kit 70319) came back without matching anybody else in our project,
meaning that we've found yet another genetically distinct Pike
family line.  What is interesting about David's line though is that
he's traced his Pike ancestry back through several generations,
mostly confined to Kent in southeast England... this put the number
of genetically distinct Pike lines in England up to at least 3
(the others being our "Group 1" from Hampshire/Wiltshire and
our "Group 2" which was in Dorset prior to sailing west).

Just the other day we got back the 37 marker results for Drake Pike.
With his line hailing from Manchester, England, his results further
advanced the tally of distinct Pike lines in the British Isles to 4.

But even more exciting was that Drake (kit 70672) who lives in Hong Kong,
and Fred (kit N31746) who lives in Georgia, have the closest match we've
yet seen with 37 markers:  they match on 36 out of 37 markers.
To add to the excitement, Drake's ancestors were in Maine in the early 1700s
while Fred's were in South Carolina around 1790... without the DNA result
to guide us, we might not have ever suspected that Drake's and Fred's
families were related.

Before closing, let me mention that next weekend FamilyTreeDNA will be
hosting a conference for project coordinators.  I attended their
conference last year in Washington DC and found it useful, so I'm
redeeming frequent-flyer points so that I can attend again this year.
My reason for mentioning this to everybody:  I should have the opportunity
to ask questions in person to folks from FamilyTreeDNA as well as to people
who are running other DNA projects, so if any of you have questions
that you would like me to raise, then now would be a good time to let
me know.

- David.