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JANET D. ARTERBURN

Janet D. (Brown) Arterburn, spouse and research partner of Carroll Norben "Art" Arterburn, passed away on April 14, 2009, after an extended illness. Our relatively small and far-flung family of Arterburns owes a great debt to Jan & Art for their prodigious work over many years of tracking down and documenting family branches and connections in America, and their efforts to uncover the Old World origins of this family line, which resulted in their book, The Arterburn Cousins (1977). Jan will long be remembered for the wonderful person she was as well as for what she and Art accomplished.

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ATTERBORNS IN SWEDEN

One or more "Atterborn" families currently reside in Sweden. To date, the "Atterborn" surname has not been found in contemporary Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, or Belgium. We now have donor funding to pursue DNA testing, but are in need of special assistance in contacting a prospective Atterborn participant. If anyone has a Swedish friend or colleague who might be willing to help, please let us hear from you! Contact the project administrator for more information.

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MITOCHONDRIAL DNA (mtDNA)

A very warm welcome to Catherine Arterburn Felten, who has joined our project by contributing the mtDNA test results of her maternal ancestry! (See "mtDNA Results" on sidebar) Catherine is a descendant of WILLIAM, and lives in North Carolina.

From Catherine's email letter: "My mother’s name was Bernice DeLus. Her father was descended from French immigrants. Her mother was Mary Louise Schwaniger. The parents of Mary Louise were John Schwaniger, German immigrant to Louisville, and Catherine Stout, of Harrison County, Indiana, daughter of earlier German immigrants."

Mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA, is inherited only through the mother, and only through the female line. Catherine's mother's ancestral Haplogroup, V, first appeared about 12,000 years ago, and is most frequently found today among the populations of the Netherlands and northern Scandinavia.

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NEW EDITION
OF
THE ARTERBURN COUSINS

A new and updated edition of The Arterburn Cousins is underway, to be compiled and published by Michael N. Arterburn. Please contact Mike if you wish to make any corrections to your family data from the first edition, or to add new family members. The new edition will essentially follow the same format as the first, with the goal of listing all individuals/families with the ARTERBURN surname.

Contact Mike now to be sure you and your family are included! Ar2BurnCousin@aol.com/.

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ARTERBURN COUSINS WEBSITE

Interested in a family Website where ARTERBURN cousins from around the world can get better acquainted and share family charts, stories, pics, and news?

For more information, contact Mike Arterburn at: Ar2BurnCousin@aol.com/.

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ARTERBURN FAMILY ASSOCIATION

The Arterburn Family Association (AFA) hosts a similar Website for descendants of Elzia (son of James, grandson of PETER) and Elizabeth Douglass Arterburn of Monroe County, Kentucky.

AFA also hosts an Arterburn family reunion annually on the second Saturday in August, which meets alternately in Columbus, Indiana, and Flippin, Kentucky.

Any and all Arterburn families or descendants, regardless of their family line, are cordially invited to attend!

For more information, contact Mike Arterburn at: Ar2burntree@aol.com/.

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GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT

Visit the National Geographic Society's (NGS) Website for the Genographic Project, an international collaboration to track and document the migration of the human family of different genetic populations across time and the planet! This Website features wonderful color graphics and easy to understand explanations! It's fun to explore--try it!

DNA test results for ARTERBURN has been contributed to this Genographic Project. To locate the ARTERBURN family's genetic group (R1a1): After arriving on the front page of the NGS Website, click on "Atlas of the Human Journey." Then, click on "Go To Genetic Markers," at the bottom right of the page. Next, under "Select a Marker," select only "Show Y-Chromosome" by deselecting "mtDNA," on the right. Then, click on "M17," the genetic marker that represents our Haplogroup, "R1a1."

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PRINT AND INTERNET RESOURCES

1. See the LDS Family History Library online catalog for additional published titles that relate to the ARTERBURN family in America.


2. Visit the ARTERBURN message boards at RootsWeb and Genealogy.com/. Numerous ARTERBURN family trees and related gedcom files can also be accessed through both of these Web portals. These online resources can be of great help in compiling a family tree, but cross-checking is recommended.


3. A user-friendly Website worth visiting that includes some direct and collateral lines of the descendants of James (son of PETER) and Mary "Polly" Elzey/Elsey/Elsea Arterburn of Sullivan County, Tennessee has been created by Debbie Vance Coulter. Debbie's Website also displays census data for some of the families, some photos, and transcriptions and facsimiles of related documents.

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Copyright 2007-2009, Charles R. Arterburn. All rights reserved. Commercial use is not allowed without specific written permission. The above information is free for personal users and family researchers. Attribution is expected in derivative works and a share-alike license applies. All works cited and/or hyperlinked as reference sources are also under copyright protection.

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{Last Updated: October 8, 2009}