Saturday, October 04, 2008

Mix & Match

In the paper...

Match the candiate to their car.

McCain
Obama
Palin
Biden

One owns a 1967 Corvette (like Helen)
2004 Cadillac CTS
2008 Ford Escape Hybrid SUV
Volkswagen Diesel Jetta

Try your luck... I was 0 for 4.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

YDNA 12 Marker Results Are IN!!!!!!!!!



This is JUST the 12 marker results. We will have 37 marker results by about the end of October. There were no exact 12 marker matches in th Powell Y-DNA group. This is our Y-DNA in the first row. The other rows are other Powell groups from the Powell Y-DNA group here
http://home.flash.net/~parino/powell-surname-dna-project.htm

That match us in 11 or the 12 marker test. In marker 439, we are 11 and these others are 12. Then the one from Wales is off on 2 markers, meaning we match 10 of 12. The 12 marker test really tells us very little, but when we get the other marker results, if we match in most of any of these, we will have more of a clue.

Right now, we are almost clueless.




This is the chart from the Powell DNA page, showing how it looks. We will be added, I think, somewhere in this group that starts with 13, 23 and ends in 29 for the 12th marker. If you go to the Powell link above, you can see the ancestors for this group.




This is the Haplo map from the family tree DNA page. We are R1b1b2. There are no names on the countries on this map, but if I remember right, R1b1b2 ends in France here. That does not mean we came from France to America. The 12 maker matches (well, 11 of 12) for our surname indicate we came from England just like we thought.

I have went to the family tree DNA page and studied what this 11 of 12 marker match means. It says, if you match 11 of 12 in a surname gourp, it means you have a 50% chance of a common ancestor in the last 17 generations, a 90% change of a common ancestor in the last 39 generations, and a 95% chance of a common ancestor in the last 47 generations. Which does not really tell us much other than that we likely came from England or Wales as we thought.

I really, really hope we get a close match on the 37 marker test......

The chart with the probability % is here
http://www.familytreedna.com/faq2.html

These are the Powells that we match 11 of 12 from the Powell DNA page.

UK-1
http://home.flash.net/~parino/powell-family-dna-project-N15530.htm
GA-6
http://home.flash.net/~parino/powell-family-dna-project-N34854.htm
NC-17
http://home.flash.net/~parino/powell-97957.pdf
ENG-6
http://home.flash.net/~parino/powell-family-dna-project-88445.htm
This one is a WilliamPowell of VA!!!!

VA-11
http://home.flash.net/~parino/powell-family-dna-project-11042.htm
This one is a Poe that went to Australia

AL-2
George Washington Powell, b. 1847 AL, d. 1900-1910 OK
But it is the line of Jim Barrett that is administrator of the Powell DNA project.

Wales-5
We match 10 of 12 on this one
http://home.flash.net/~parino/powell-family-dna-project-51974.htm

You can go to the Powell DNA page it find out more about some of these.

http://home.flash.net/~parino/powell-surname-dna-project.htm

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Foggy Sunday Morn



It was foggy at 7:30 this morning when I started on my walk. You can see the gate and fence that George, Greg and kelly fixed yesterday. Kelly is bringing some horses down today..



This is the pond taken from the old barn by Clayton's. That is tin from the barn roof at the lower right.


This is the road over by Hampton's. When I left home, the sun was breaking through, but from Dan's clear around to here there was no sunshine stricking the road. When I got back to the old Stone place at 9 am, the sun was just starting to break through on the road. I walked to Peden's chicken house and it took me 2 hours.