Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:41:24 -0330 (NST)
From: David Pike 
To: pike-dna-l@rootsweb.com
Subject: Three new results



Hi everybody.

This report discusses three results that I've been meaning to mention. 
Two of them involve anonymous participants in our project though, so there 
isn't much that can yet be said about them although their results could 
ultimately help to advance the genealogies of our projects Groups 6 and 
18.



Back in July we received the 12-marker DNA results for kit 192797 (who is 
an anonymous participant in our project).  His closest matches within are 
project are with Gilbert (kit 62731) and Jesse (69482), who both differ 
from 192797 by one marker.  The next closest matches all have at least 
three differences.  So for the timebeing kit 192797 has been included with 
Gilbert and Jesse in our project's Group 6.



Tom (kit 212975) received the results of a 37-marker test from FTDNA in 
October. Previously Tom had done some DNA testing with another company, 
whose results we used to include him in our project with a kit number of 
Y002.  Now that he has tested with FTDNA it is much easier to do 
comparisons with the rest of our project members.

For instance, it is now evident that Tom has a perfect 25-marker match 
with John (kit 24697) whose Pike ancestry can be traced back to North 
Carolina in the 1760s.  At 37 markers, Tom's closest match is with Roger 
(kit 50318), who only has one marker different.  Roger's ancestry has been 
traced back to the villages of Linkenholt, Ashmansworth and Whitchurch, 
which are all within about ten miles of each other, in Hampshire.

Regarding Tom's ancestry, he descends from a Thomas Pike who was born in 
England about 1837 but was living in Quebec by the late 1860s.  One 
possibility (which we have not yet been able to confirm) is that Thomas 
might be a son of a Thomas Pike who lived in Cheshire and Lancashire but 
who was born at Hungerford, Berkshire about 1801 (which is within ten 
miles of Linkenholt and Ashmansworth).



Kit number 218352 is an anonymous participant who tested 37 markers.  His 
results were reported in November, and revealed the 15th perfect 37-marker 
match for our project, this time with Ralph (kit 197443) in Group 18. 
Ralph traces his lineage back to Hugh Pike of Newbury Massachusetts, but 
as yet we do not have details for the ancestry of 218352.


- David.