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Group
Administrator: Raymond Kelly [email protected]
SEE PAGE TWO for
individual records
Project
Surnames:
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Kellie |
Kelly |
O'Kelly |
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Project Background:
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a surname itself may give us incomplete or misleading or, at
best, only general information about the origin of a family,
DNA-testing can give us concrete evidence for identifying and
separating family lines. Y-chromosome DNA testing is
especially helpful because the male Y-chromosome is handed
down, father to son, unchanged through the generations, except
for rare mutations which, in themselves, can be helpful
indicators of branching. The accessibility and affordability
of family DNA testing is doubtless the greatest technical
advance in the history of genealogical research because -- at
long, long last -- we have a tool to break down those brick
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Project Goals:
The
goal of the KELLEY/KELLY Surname Project is to distinguish
between KELLEY/KELLY ancestral lines, worldwide. Any
reasonable spelling variant is included (please feel free to
suggest a variant you feel I have missed).
Please note
that, at the outset, it makes sense to "cast the net widely."
As the number of individuals tested increases and various
lines become well defined, I will be more than happy to turn
over these lines to other researchers specializing in them. I
don't recommend splitting-up the project at the outset because
I have a feeling we are in for some surprises with regard to
where the divisions belong...
Also please note that, to
participate meaningfully, you will need to share your male
direct-line ancestry either in the form of a pedigree or,
preferably, as family group sheets.
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Project
News:
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May 2005: We now have 14 members and 14 Kits have been
returned for analysis.
5 March 2005: We now have 13
members and 12 Kits have been returned for analysis.
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Feb. 2005: We now have 11 Members and 5 Kits have been
returned for analysis. The Test Results for 3 Members are
given below. A Web Page is being developed to display the Test
Results and Family Descendancy Data. You will be notified when
the Site is operational.
14 Dec 2004 - as of this date,
one KELLEY and two KELLY's have joined the project.
22 Sep
2004 - the KELLEY/KELLY Surname Project was announced.
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Project
Results:
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May 2005: We have results back from 13 out of the 14 samples
that have been submitted.
We have matches of all 12
markers in three different cases.
There are matches for
(29162) James E.Liewer and (29163) Jeff Kelly Sr.
There is also a match for (31241) Robert Oscar Kelly
and (31057) Alvis Powell Kelley. This line goes back to Tyre
Kelly who was in Clarke Co.,Ga in 1806.
There is also a
match for (32193)Samuel Kelley Jr. and (34755)Archibald
Kelley. This Lines Most Distant Ancestor is Darby Kelley,
b.1705, Conemara, Ireland who died 1788 in Rockingham Co., NH.
Family descendancy data will be posted on the Kelley
DNA Web Site as soon as it is operational.
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My Kelly's were in Burke County in
the 1780's. They came earlier from Virginia.
I'll link to the site from my Kelly
database.
Good work. Don
DNA Test Results
(Alleles) for Project Members
DNA Test Results (mtDNA) for
Project Members
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