To: pike-dna-l@rootsweb.com
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:33:35 -0330 (NST)
From: dapike@math.mun.ca (David Pike)
Subject: [PIKE-DNA] Some Recent DNA Results


Hi everybody.

I'm away from home right now and confined to a hotel room
in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where a snowstorm has shut pretty
much everything down.  So this seems like as good a time as
any to try to convey some news about some of our project's
latest results.

For instance, in recent weeks we have gotten two more
perfect 25 marker matches.  One of these is between Philip
and kit number 61275, both of whom have been grouped together
in our project's "Group 2" which involves the Pike clan of
Carbonear, Newfoundland.

The other perfect 25 marker match is between Marvin and Keith
(kit numbers 61285 and 80666).  Marvin's results came back from
the lab in late October 2006 and at the time did not match with
anybody in our project.  Marvin and Keith are now listed on our
project's "Results" page as "Group 8".

Meanwhile, 12-marker results for Robert (kit N43252) came back
from the lab without matching anybody in our project.  So we
now have an overall count of 23 genetically distinct (meaning
unrelated) Pike family lines.  Robert's line is noteworthy
though as his Pike family came out of Devon, England.  This
brings our tally of different Pike lines in the British Isles
up to 5.  It's also interesting to note that we now have evidence
of 3 different Pike lines from 3 of England's southwestern counties
(which is the region in which the Pike surname has historically
been the most concentrated).

After hearing that an administrator from another project mentioned
doing so, I went about putting together a short webpage that offers
some suggestions for what else we might be able to do with our test
results, beyond simply using them to compare with results from other
Pikes involved in our project.  What I've put together so far (which
isn't complete, but is at least a start) can be viewed at:
http://www.math.mun.ca/~dapike/family_history/pike/DNA/index.php?content=whatelse.html

There are likely one or two other items that I'm supposed to mention,
and which I've got written on a to-do list at home, but this is
all that I can remember right now.

- David.