[Hooper] Message from Hooper DNA Project Administrator ~ Wade Glascock

[Hooper, Clay]

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/

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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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