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Shirleys in All Countries Invited
to Participate!
This project is not limited to
the Shirleys in America. This project is open for Shirleys in
other countries too!
What I need from you!
An email saying you are interested
in participating in this project. Give me the name of your branch
if you know that. If you do not know, then the name of your earliest
Shirley ancestor, county and state they lived and aprox. year.
If your ancestors are from Australia,
New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Jamaica or elsewhere, let me know
that. Tell me what you can about the first ancestor you know
of. If we have that info on our website, give me the link to
our page.
When the results come back, we
will have a page just for the results of the DNA testing. I understand
that the results should be available about 7-8 weeks after the
lab receives your kit.
If you are female, we need two
SHIRLEY male cousin representatives for your family group. You
can help by finding them for us and if you would like...you can
send for the kits and mail it back to the lab. That way you know
the DNA was sent in. You may find they are not as interested
in the ancestry as you are. You can be a representative for your
group. We will post the branches and list the name of the person
who volunteers to be the rep for each branch.
There will be a charge for the
DNA service. The company charges $99 plus postage for each test.
I would like to suggest that you have your family share in this
expense as it benefits all of them. This test is done in a lab
and all records and the DNA is stored there for 25 years. An
actual data base is set up for the Shirleys and can be added
to over the years. There are some other benefits, but for now,
we will limit our info to just what we have here. I don't want
to go into overload.
For the American Shirleys...This
is an excellent opportunity for all of you who are studying your
Shirley roots. Let's come together in cooperation to determine
once and for all a relationship between the various Shirley family
branches. That has been our focus for over 20 years. For those
not identified with a Shirley branch, this is the opportunity
to see what branch you match with.
Our Testing Strategy Going Forward!
I am now launching this effort
today, March 1st 2003.
We have much to do to move forward
on this project. We need YOUR cooperation to find two male SHIRLEY
members from each branch of the family. If our contacts for the
branches are females, we will need you to find SHIRLEY male representatives
for your family.
1. THEY SHOULD BE DISTANT COUSIN'S
LIKE 3RD OR 4TH COUSINS AT LEAST. THE MORE DISTANT THE BETTER
...SUCH AS 5TH OR 6TH COUSIN on the same branch of the Shirley
family tree.
For clearification I will use
this example: Branch #7. Thomas and Mollie Grubb Shirley. The
great great grandsons of 2 of their sons would be an example
of distant cousins. It can vary some, this is just an idea of
what we mean by 2 distant cousins on the same branch.
2. THEY MUST HAVE THE SHIRLEY
SURNAME. Remember... a SHIRLEY father passes his Y chromosome
on to his son virtually unchanged.
Matches will be done between
branches! If a Shirley branch does not match the main group,
your branch may match another non matching group. That suggests
a name change. We have talked about this before. This a perfect
opportunity for those branches we suspect may descend from Schally
(Shally, etc.) to be involved with this DNA testing project.
We suspect about 4 groups are connected to the original Schally
spelling. We have the opportunity to test this theory. We may
find other Shirleys connected to the Schally group as well.
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Shirley
Family 
The Shirley Association has launched one of its
most important genealogical projects to date. DNA testing has
been proven to be an invaluable genealogical tool and the Shirley
Association has jumped into the latest technology with both feet.
We are hoping to use this technology to connect the many unconnected
Shirley branches from all over the world. Testing is open to
all males with the Shirley surname.