From WadeGlasck@aol.com  Tue Nov  5 03:27:30 2002
From: WadeGlasck@aol.com (WadeGlasck@aol.com)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:27:30 EST
Subject: [Hooper] Hooper DNA results
Message-ID: <198.1013a7c8.2af894a2@aol.com>

Hello all,

Results from the Hooper DNA project are starting to come in. Go to the 
website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hooperconnections/  to see 
the results that have been received so far. The participants are arranged by 
ancestor. Some of the lines only have one person testing for that ancestor. 
The project will be an ongoing effort and there is time for any and all 
others to join in the project.
Participation is open to any Hooper male.
Take care.

Wade Glascock


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From AB4RU@aol.com  Tue Nov  5 18:01:41 2002
From: AB4RU@aol.com (AB4RU@aol.com)
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:01:41 EST
Subject: [Hooper] Hooper DNA Results Coming in
Message-ID: <83.232aa0ad.2af96185@aol.com>

Hi All,

Some of the results have started to come in and is being posted on a web page 
Clay Hooper has designed, Thanks Clay, it looks great. 

Some of you will be interested to know that 3 decendants from the Absalom 
Hooper that married Elizabeth Rymer line matched my DNA perfectly. I can't 
wait to see who else is going to match me.

Ron


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From WadeGlasck@aol.com  Mon Nov 11 03:37:42 2002
From: WadeGlasck@aol.com (WadeGlasck@aol.com)
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 22:37:42 EST
Subject: [Hooper] Hooper DNA projects
Message-ID: <d3.14dceb90.2b008006@aol.com>

Hello Hoopers!

The Hooper male line DNA project is still going strong. Several results are 
back in and we have added more participants. All Hooper men are invited to 
join in this historic undertaking.
With the Hooper Y-DNA Project going so well we've decided to branch out into 
testing that involves the female line. This is known as mitochondrial DNA or 
mtDNA testing. This type of testing looks at the direct female only line of 
your family. We hope to be able to connect more Hooper lines by using this 
technology.
If you haven't been to the Hooper DNA project webpage, it's time to take a 
look. The page gets better and better each day. Go to <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hooperconnections/">
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hooperconnections/</A>

Wade


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From AB4RU@aol.com  Sat Nov 16 15:52:46 2002
From: AB4RU@aol.com (AB4RU@aol.com)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:52:46 EST
Subject: [Hooper] Ledbetter/Hooper Research
Message-ID: <10e.1a411e17.2b07c3ce@aol.com>

Hello Hooper List,

There is been a recent renewed interest in finding the mother and father of 
the Margaret Ledbetter, born 1794, that married John Hooper, also the Sarah 
Millissa Van Dora Ledbetter, born 1811, South Carolina, that married Isaac 
Hooper. It is assumed that Isaac married Sarah approximately 1828 in Haywood 
County, NC. Margaret married John Hooper @1813, location unknown, but maybe 
SC. 

>From some documentation that was passed down, Margaret Ledbetter's father was 
a Revolutionary Solider. Since I am a member of the SAR, I have access to the 
records for which the Ledbetter sir names were claimed for membership. This 
is what I found:

Drury Ledbetter, served Virginia
Henry Ledbetter, served North Carolina
Isaac Ledbetter, served 4th Reg North Carolina, Continental

There maybe other Ledbetter compatriots that is included on the DAR records 
or may not be listed at all. 

IF ANYONE HAS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE LEDBETTERS PLEASE RESPOND TO THE 
LIST SINCE SEVERAL MEMBERS ARE INTERESTED IN THE FINDINGS. 

BTW.. I am trying to reach Mary Hooper Crocker and the phone number I have 
does not work. Can someone forward me her e-mail and/or phone number.

Thanks
Ron Hooper, ab4ru@aol.com


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From diane@nrgrecording.com  Mon Nov 18 15:27:51 2002
From: diane@nrgrecording.com (Deanna Baumgardner)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:27:51 -0800
Subject: [Hooper] George Washington Hooper
Message-ID: <4D2B011E-FB0A-11D6-9428-000393C2730A@nrgrecording.com>

> Want to contact direct male descendant of George Washington Hooper b. 
> March 14, 1808 Franklin County, GA. d. August 17, 1861 in Shelby 
> County, Texas .  Had sons, James Smith, Samuel Robert, George 
> Washington, Jr., William Monroe, Christopher Columbus,and John Thomas. 
>  Will appreciate hearing from you.  Deanna Hooper Baumgardner
>


From diane@nrgrecording.com  Tue Nov 19 04:31:52 2002
From: diane@nrgrecording.com (Deanna Baumgardner)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:31:52 -0800
Subject: [Hooper] Benjamin Franklin Hooper descendants
Message-ID: <D3F1FFED-FB77-11D6-85EF-000393C2730A@nrgrecording.com>

Need information on John Hooper born. abt. 1843 in Shelby County, Texas 
son of Benjamin Franklin Hooper and LauryAnn Bounds Hooper.  Any  
information appreciated.  Deanna Hooper Baumgardner


From WadeGlasck@aol.com  Tue Nov 19 16:58:10 2002
From: WadeGlasck@aol.com (WadeGlasck@aol.com)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:58:10 EST
Subject: [Hooper] More Hooper news
Message-ID: <19e.c2c92f3.2b0bc7a2@aol.com>

Greetings Hoopers,

More results for the Hooper DNA project have come in. The project gets more 
interesting by the day. Mr. Clay Hooper is doing a fantastic job as webmaster 
on the project page. If you haven't stopped by lately then go to : <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hooperconnections/">
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hooperconnections/</A>
If you would like to participate in this historic Hooper effort complete 
instructions can be found on the website or you can e-mail me directly.
Have a great day!

Wade Glascock


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From clayhooper@directvinternet.com  Fri Nov 22 08:37:25 2002
From: clayhooper@directvinternet.com (Hooper, Clay)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:37:25 -0800
Subject: [Hooper] DNA Project
Message-ID: <3DDDECC5.30202@directvinternet.com>

Hello Everyone!

I will probably only get one or two hits out of this, but just in 
case....I've posted a picture of myself on my DNA Participant Page on 
the Hooper DNA Table on the Hooper Y-DNA Project.  Please don't throw 
any tomatoes at your computer screen!  If any other Participants would 
like to add their picture also to their Participant Page, just email 
your picture to me and I'll add it on.  The picture must come to me in 
.gif or .jpg format to be posted.  We might as well get some of the 
mystery out of our researchings and get to know each other.  Of course 
this is NOT a requirement, just a "if you want to" type thing.

If you know of anyone that would like to participate in the DNA 
Projects, please encourage them.  The cost is not particularly cheap, 
but it's also not that much if you consider all the hundreds of dollars 
we spend researching the paper trails.  We're having exciting 
connections through this project that are making the genetic connections 
to various families that we've just been circumstantially or hopefully 
connecting before!  SO, the more participants and the more various the 
lines represented the better!  We currently have a little over 20 
participants........now let me goad you into action.....the Graves 
Families have 135 participants......we can't let them out do us can we?! 
  :-)   All the information you need to begin participation in one of 
the Hooper DNA Projects is listed on the website.

Be sure to visit the Hooper Connections website often as new information 
is added regularly.  Also, I want everyone to know that You Too can 
become a Valued Contributor to the website.....just email your ideas, 
suggestions, informations to me at <clayhooper@directvinternet.com> and 
we'll try to get your contributions posted as soon as possible.  We're 
still sorely lacking in Family Trees and Family Pictures, so send yours 
on in!  Also, if you have or know of other websites that are Hooper 
related that are not already posted on the Links page, send those in too 
and we'll get them added so it will be easier for you to find them quickly.

Hope you're enjoying the website and that it's becoming more and more 
useful to you in your genealogy and research.  Let us hear from you soon!

Best Regards to all ~ Clay

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hooperconnections/


From The Duffy's" <cduffy2@houston.rr.com  Sun Nov 17 14:33:10 2002
From: The Duffy's" <cduffy2@houston.rr.com (The Duffy's)
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 08:33:10 -0600
Subject: [Hooper] J A Hooper Austin Texas 1904
Message-ID: <000a01c28e46$412fc5e0$6401a8c0@houston.rr.com>

I have a book Reminiscences of the Civil War by General Gordon
inscribed with Confederate sayings by J A Hooper of Austin Texas
copyright is 1904

anything that anyone can share with me about J A Hooper would be =
appreciated


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From clayhooper@directvinternet.com  Mon Nov 25 00:41:36 2002
From: clayhooper@directvinternet.com (Hooper, Clay)
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:41:36 -0800
Subject: [Hooper] Thomas & Churchill
Message-ID: <3DE171C0.5000309@directvinternet.com>

Does anyone know of a male direct line descendant of the brothers Thomas 
and Churchill Hooper?
We need a DNA participant from each of those lines.  Any help on 
contacting a descendant from
each of these men would be greatly appreciated.

Clay


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From clayhooper@directvinternet.com  Tue Nov 26 08:17:10 2002
From: clayhooper@directvinternet.com (Hooper, Clay)
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:17:10 -0800
Subject: [Hooper] Message from Hooper DNA Project Administrator ~ Wade Glascock
Message-ID: <3DE32E06.4000004@directvinternet.com>

Hello all Hooper genealogists and researchers ~

I thought this latest note from Wade Glascock, Hooper DNA Projects 
Administrator, was well worth sharing with you all.  Hopefully, you'll 
see the significants in participating in this historic work and 
encourage your Hooper males to join in.  Hope you all have a Happy 
Thanksgiving!  

Clay
PS..........For those of you not living in the U.S., we'd love to have 
you all participate too!  Don't let the oceans stop you from joining in 
on the fun and history making.  Who knows, we may find you are my next 
of kin!

URL to the website: 
 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hooperconnections/

************************************************************************************************

Hello all,

I wanted to write a brief note to update all the participants and 
everyone else who has shown interest in the DNA project.
I hope everyone has had the opportunity to look at the website. Clay has 
done a really outstanding job. He has added links for pictures, family 
trees and family records. If you have anything relating to the Hooper 
family, he would like to post them on the site. He will be away this 
week but will be back hard at work next week. Send any submissions to 
him at clayhooper@directvinternet.com
Thus far the project has been able to confirm a number of suspected 
relationships and in at least one instance refute a suspected 
relationship. In looking at the results page of the Y-DNA project a few 
things are pretty striking. First you'll notice a rather significant 
block of people who are now known genetic relatives. There is another 
group of two descendants of Obediah Hooper who are also shown to be 
related. There are also several people who haven't found their 
connections yet. The large block was put together by several friends and 
relatives working to find participants. Those of you without a 
connection will need to do something similar. Talk to the people you've 
been in contact with in your genealogy and convince them to be tested. 
You may be able to find your genetic relatives.
I also have a few ideas about where to go on future testing. Just about 
everyone I've corresponded with has the rumor in their family that they 
are related to William Hooper, the signer of the Declaration of 
Independence. This is our chance to find out who his relatives really 
are. I believe it would be worth our while to seek out descendants of 
William for testing.
Possibly the second most famous American Hooper was Ben W. Hooper, who 
was a governor of Tennessee. Ben was born illegitimate but was claimed 
by a Hooper family. It wouldn't hurt to get some genetic confirmation on 
this.
We now have pretty good coverage of the southern U.S. but need to finish 
up a few lines. We could use participants from the Churchill, Thomas and 
Absalom families of middle Tennessee. There were also two Thomases in 
Louisiana in the early 1800's that could be looked at.
I've had mail from someone who is helping a Hooper with roots in Mexico 
on his genealogy. If you could convince your Hooper friend to do the 
testing you may very well find an American family he fits into.
It would also be good to find Hoopers in Europe and Australia. It would 
be interesting to see how our families match up against some of them.
Getting even more specific I'd like to talk a little bit about the 
results on the big block of DNA matches. There is a mix of 12 and 25 
marker tests and most of the results are the same. There are a few 
differences however. These are my ideas about the possible significance 
of some of these differences. However, I'm not a real scientist though I 
do play one on the internet.
On Kit 5283, a descendant of James (1745) has a 16 on DYS392 where 
everyone else has 15. Since another participant (Kit 5140) is also of 
James's line and doesn't have the value of 16, it would seem that this 
mutation only effects someone further down Kit 5283's line and is not 
indicative of James's whole line. On DYS464d, Kits 5140 and 5141 both 
have 17 with everyone else having 18. This also doesn't seem to indicate 
a lineal relationship. Kit 5140 is on the same line as 5283, above, and 
5283 doesn't show the Dys464d mutation. Also Kit 5141 is from the line 
of Absalom (1807) and there are two other participants from this line 
without the mutation. It seems that the mutation to 17 on these lines 
were separate events and don't represent a discrete line.
Okay now on to the mutations that may have some impact. On Kit 5181 a 
descendant of Andrew (1807) has 16 on DYS437 whereas all others have 15. 
There is no one else with 25 marker results on Andrew's line so there is 
no way of knowing if this mutation affects all Andrew descendants or 
just this one individual's line.
On Kit 5506 a descendant of Absalom (1764) has 28 on DYS449 where others 
all have 29. No other descendants of this Absalom have 25 marker 
results. This could be interesting if the pending results for the 
Clemmons descendant where upgraded to the 25 marker test. Absalom and 
Clemmons were brothers. If the Clemmons descendant also shows a 28 at 
DYS449 then it would mean that this mutation came from the father of 
Absalom and Clemmons. This would also mean that James, Jesse, and the 
father or grandfather of Absalom (1807) and Andrew could not be brothers 
to Absalom (1764) and Clemmons. This would represent a discrete point 
where the lines separated.
Another striking revelation is the fact that two of the three results 
for Absalom (1807), Kits 5146 and 5180 are identical at all 25 markers 
with the results for Jesse (Kits 5159 and 5421). Since there was no 
known relationship between these two previously it is pretty surprising. 
Since Jesse was from middle Tennessee, I think it's possible that one of 
the middle Tennessee Hoopers moved to southeast Tennessee and fathered 
Absalom and Andrew and maybe some others. It might be something for 
further research.
Well my short note has gotten very long and I'd be surprised if any of 
you made it this far. I'll sign off now. Take care.

Wade


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From diane@nrgrecording.com  Sat Nov 30 12:02:02 2002
From: diane@nrgrecording.com (Deanna Baumgardner)
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 04:02:02 -0800
Subject: [Hooper] Hooper DNA Project
Message-ID: <8963754F-045B-11D7-8661-000393C2730A@nrgrecording.com>

We need some direct male participants in the Hooper DNA Project from 
the John Jefferson Hooper line; his sons were Francis Marion, James 
Monroe, Alonzo Nathaniel, Commodore Perry and William Columbus. It will 
prove your ancestry to Obediah Hooper, Sr. born abt. 1720. You can get 
full information on the site below.  I will be willing to pay the fee.  
Deanna Hooper Baumgardner   
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hooperconnections/


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