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Please contribute to the Dustin Fund to pay for Hannah's descendants testing. If we each chip in a little we can sponsor several Y-Chromosome tests. We also need the males named Duston who descend from our Nathaniel M. Duston. Help get this going and we will know for sure. Just log on the site above and go to

if you want others to contribute to the general fund for this project send the following link: http://www.familytreedna.com/contribution.html

Procedure to order a kit that will benefit from the General Fund:

a) Order the kit using the "Invoice" method

b) Email juliew@familytreedna.com the Kit # and your instructions on how to apply funds to it. For example: "Kit 12345 , apply $50 from the General Fund". Of course, the $50 is only for example purposes - you can use any amounts. (Use of FTDNA matching gifts expired on 12/31/04).

c) We will make the adjustment on the record and on the corresponding invoice.

d) The kit owner can then either call us with credit card information for the remaining portion, or simply send us that credit card information or check along with his kit back to us. The following is a log of your General Fund entries: 0 balance.

Hello O.D.

Yes, after all this time to have a definitive answer.

Perhaps this will explain it.

What our DNA project needs in order to prove our lineage to the Emerson/Dustin line is to match a Y chromosome. They tell me the swab must be from a "well documented male Dustin." This means one of Hannah's sons to his son, and his son, and so on. So biologically there would be no interruption in the Y line.

All other males and all females are mtDNA tested. (regarding the Dustin project). We learn ethnicity and our oldest common ancestor to any match in the FTDNA database. excerpt from discussion "it would be more productive to locate the most distant cousin in the male line. That way you would confirm (hopefully) the haplotype of your Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA), whether that be a great-grandfather or a 3rd great-grandfather or even a 5th great-grandfather."

Haplotype is my key as a producer of mtDNA. For the Y chromosome test, my husband, Lynn Hunt, could participate in a Hunt-DNA project. His oldest Hunt ancestor is James Hunt b. 1800 Walker Co, GA. If there were lots and lots of males named Hunt with direct decadency to HUNT lines prior to 1800, Lynn might match one of them. We would break through our HUNT brick wall and find out who James Hunt's lineage is through.

You could only participate in a Y study for the Meyers line for reasons of surname study. If you decided to take a test, you would be matched with anyone in the study who was close to you. In fact, it would be possible theoretically to match to a Meyers in Russia, or Germany, or England, etc. The haplotype results could yield information like the quote below where matches are being analyzed:

Recently I have been researching my own Y-DNA haplogroup J2 quite a bit. I came across an interesting article on Dienekes' Anthropology Blog which explains how Haplogroup J2a1 could have easily originated in Greece. I myself am most likely J2a1* for right now until they discover some more J2a1
subclades.

Yes I agree that it is probably more complex than just the Greeks spreading around haplogroup J2a1 in the Mediterranean but the high diversity of haplogroup J2a1 in Greece, Crete and Romania seems to clearly point to a Balkan-Greek origin for this haplogroup though. From what the paper says it does not seem that it comes from Phonecia as it seems to say that it has decreasing values both east/south-east and west of it. It also shows up in fair percentages in areas where the ancient Greeks were known to have had colonies such as Southern Italy, Bulgaria and the Ukraine. And yes I agree that those ancient J2a1 men certainly seemed to have liked the sea and I am starting to think that my J2a1 ancestor was an ancient Mediterranean mariner :).

Yes, it is confusing until we learn more about reading the results. I call it alphabet soup!

Anyway, although you are proved a Dustin already and have no reason (as a Meyers) to take a DNA test, you could learn so much from taking a FTDNA test. We get the group discount, so you could take it through our website (no I do not get a commission hee hee). Just trying to explain the "wonderful world of Genealogy by DNA." BTW I ordered a kit for my father, surname BISHOP, for Father's Day. He is first generation American from England. So we might find if, way back, he was Viking or confirm a link to Saxony (as our oral history states), or he could have come through a French line.

Here are some TESTIMONIALS - I am also from the German line. I am interested in Jacob Cope, Rowan Co.
North Carolina. , around 1800 +-Thanks Kenton Cope .

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...it gives me great pleasure to enclose a Certificate of Appreciation to you and your DNA family for the wonderful results that Family Tree DNA uncovered for our total family. The positive testing results establishing a genetic connection between two of our bloodlines - Rev. Henry Easterling and Thomas Easterling - are simply wonderful....
We look forward to continuing our relationship with you.
Letson (Les) E. Easterling, Sr.
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This is Alice Rabinovich from Argentina. Only a short time ago, we heard from a possible cousin of ours in California who had been trying to find family through Internet. In no time, he ordered tests for himself and a male cousin of ours and in less than 30 days we had the immense pleasure of finding out that we did have family we thought we had lost along 3 generations, 6000 miles and 90 years. Needless to say, we couldn't feel happier now. ________________________________________________________________________________

What a great service! My test partner and I are both genealogists. We knew that our families were distantly connected as descendants of the Swiss Hauri family, probably with a common ancestor who lived about 1400. I didn't think that my test partner and I would match, though.
My Howerys have a tradition that we used to be Hamiltons, but some ancestor adopted the name Howery from a step-father back in Virginia, maybe in the mid-1800s. We couldn't find any evidence to support this tradition, but we thought it was probably true anyway. I thought that a y-chromosome test would support our family tradition by showing that we are not connected to the Howerys.
Imagine my surprise when I matched perfectly on a y-chromosome test with another descendant of the Hauri family! After one simple test, I have proof that family tradition was wrong; that my family are really Howerys. Because of this test, we've solved a major genealogical dilemma, with dramatic evidence of the continuity of family lines.
Justin Howery
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I want to thank you and the entire Family Tree DNA organization for the outstanding service you have provided. I have been doing genealogical research for 20 years, and have had great success with all but a few lines. The toughest by far has been my direct paternal line. The fact that my 3rd gt. grandfather had a common surname, as well as a common given name, made the task of identifying his ancestry almost insurmountable, with a large number of possibilities and no real way to establish which was correct. Thanks to Family Tree DNA, I have been able to break through that brick wall and connect with fellow researchers from my extended Walker family. I highly recommend your services to all family historians as an integral and invaluable part of the research process.
Sincerely,
Randy Walker ______________________________________________________________________________________________

So, Steve, you and I cannot prove or disprove my relationship through Edna Earle Dustin or her father, W.O. Duston, or his father Nathaniel M. Duston. The hope of our Dustin-DNA group, is that a Dustin/Duston male with the surname, who is properly documented to Hannah will submit to a test (costs paid for by our DUSTIN-DNA group). Then Nathaniel's direct uninterrupted descendants could either match or not.

If they match, we know with 99.9% accuracy that we descend from Hannah's strain. If they do not match, then we know that our Nathaniel was mistaken when he told his children and descendants that we were descended from the "famous Hannah Dustin from Massachusetts." At that point, we cousins can stop banging our head against our brick wall and go from there.

Thanks for being patient with this incredibly long reply.

I am hopefully your cousin,

Barb

THANKS to the Jeannine Rainbolt family for their donation to the DUSTIN Surname Project. Jeannine researched her DUSTON heritage for many years, and in many states. She was always ready to share her results. Her correspondence was full of primary records, family stories, oral history and encouragement. Now, her family has generously donated $500 to our project. Our grateful thanks go to Gene Rainbolt and family.

Many descendants of Nathaniel M. Duston have been gathering genealogical facts for over 30 years. Finally we have an answer.

Good new! Here is the message, I received from

Family Tree DNA
http://www.FamilyTreeDNA.com (input Dustin on the surname search)
info@familytreedna.com

Two of our members have an EXACT MATCH. They have matched in all loci. This means there is a 99% likelihood they share a common ancestor.

Check our website for more information.

Congratulations to all,

Barb