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Subject: HILL Re: [LDR] RE: DNA / Molecular Genealogy: my quest to connect!
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:24:37 EDT

Hello Everyone,

I want to second the recommendation to join the "genealogy-dna" list if you
have any interest or are in the midst of DNA testing. It has a mix of folks
of widely varying levels of expertise (I couldn't begin to understand many of
the emails). It is also extremely tolerant of newby queries.

I originally joined a year or so ago, when it appeared (incorrectly) some
cousins and I could put together the resources to do testing regarding our
illegitimate great grandfather, supposedly a descendant of a well-documented
Hill family NC>TN (with WAY too many males in his place of birth, however,
who could be the guilty parties, though one has been targetted).

Since there are a number of HILLs in Worcester Co (at least) among the LDR
counties, I thought some of you might be interested to know that in the
meantime, a Hill surname project has gotten (sic) off the ground. I am
pasting in an email recently to the Hill list about it if any of you are
interested. FYI, for Isaac Hill and Lucinda Wallace of Edgecombe Co NC(my
likely line), there is no proof that they were from Maryland, in fact
researchers are now looking at the Hills of Bertie Co NC. The Maryland
reference is to St. Mary's Co. The goal is to try to group the early Hill
families, with an eye towards ancestry in the "old country". Since my
supposed line is already being tested our cost is only $99, versus at least
$600.00 we were looking at doing it on our own.

FYI, the DNA-Genealogy list is extremely busy (though also extremely
interesting), which is why I elected to unsubscribe.

Best Regards, Janet Hunter -- the HILL DNA project post:

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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:16:14 EDT
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Hello fellow HILL listers:

I just wanted to make everyone aware that a HILL family DNA project
is well underway. Our main objective for participants in this project is to
find
DNA matches with one or more well-researched HILL lines not otherwise proven
by traditional methods of research. To start the project, we selected
living MALE participants from the following lines:

Henry Truman HILL (NORTHERN BRANCH/Illinois)
Henry Truman HILL (SOUTHERN BRANCH/Old Ninety-Six, SC)
Robert HILL/Mary WEBB (Surry Co. VA)
William HILL/Susannah SMITHERS (Surry Co. NC)
Jonas Hill/Mary Barnes (NC > SC > TN)
Henry HILL (brother of Jonas)/Sarah COX (NC > SC > TN)
Isaac HILL, Sr./Lucinda Wallace (MD > NC > GA > TN > TX)
William HILL/Hannah BRIDGES (NC > SC > GA)
Wilkes Co. GA HILLs, aka Henry HILL/Mary HINTON
Green B. HILL/Martha IVEY (VA > NC > SC > GA > AL > TX)
Charles Hill/Temperance Webb
Abel Hill/wife unknown
Robert Hill/Martha Halbert
Moses Hill of Fairfield SC

Results from the test will begin to be posted in a few weeks.

Participation in the test is open to ANY male HILL descendant of ANY Hill
line. The more participants we have, the more we will all learn from this.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Ray HILL
(), who is serving as our HILL DNA Project
Administrator. Email to Ray your NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER, and EMAIL
ADDRESS. He will then order you a kit which will be promptly be sent to your
home. The process involves an easy swabbing of the inside of the
participant's mouth with the materials provided. The kit is then returned to
the testing lab and you will be sent a confirmation email when it arrives.
When the lab completes their analysis of your DNA, you will be notified of
the results. If your code matches another participant in the project, each
of you will be notified of the match, which we are hoping will lead to some
new breakthroughs for some of us. The cost is $99 (+$2 shipping).

Please contact Ray if you have any further questions.

Byron Hill
HILL-L Administrator

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