November 11, 2008
For those of you following the recent posts concerning the TE spelling, descendants of Samuel SturTEvant of 1640 MA; I just want to keep you appraised of the situation. For those new to the discussion, I ask you to read the last couple of posts concerning the heritage of Andrew Judson SturTEvant, and this PDF Summary.
In a nutshell, there was a DNA result for a descendant of AJ SturTEvant found in the Sorenson y-Chromosome database. While the genealogy was a fit to a descendant of Moses, grandson of Samuel, the DNA was not. The values given do not match the other descendants of grandsons of Samuel in this project.
Because the Sorenson database, as a free test, is totally anonymous, we cannot contact this individual to help settle the situation.
How firm is the genealogy? Do we have a non-paternal event somewhere, and if so where?
As the St*r**v*nt Genetic Project does not have a descendant of Samuel’s grandson Moses, we have asked for a volunteer, a known descendant of Moses, to participate through Sorenson as a confirmation of the DNA results. (We have contacted, but not as yet had an offer from another known descendant of AJ SturTEvant to participate in dna testing.)
That volunteer has stepped up, and contributed her brother’s dna to Sorenson. Since Sorenson is not a paid service, does their testing in batches, and verifies pedigrees submitted, it can be a long process for the results to be published. Indeed, they do not even nofify the individual when the results have been published. The only way to find them is to keep searching for them. Which I have been doing on a weekly basis since the sample was returned the middle of September.
The search is simple. Go Here, click to fill the radio buttons for Search by Surname and Approximate, then fill in Sturtevant or Sturdevant for the surname. Scroll down and Hit Search. You should at least see the results for the original submission. It will have STURTEVANT[USA-California], STURTEVANT[USA-Maine] on the right, below the results. Click on the Pedigree button to the left to see the genealogy submitted with this result.
So that is where we stand on this subject. I will continue to let you know when we have something. This is a long term project and I encourage any and all interested in one of the variants of our surname to participate either through the free service at Sorenson or the paid services such as DNA Heritage, Family Tree DNA, or Ancestry.com.
Thanks!
jSS
