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Group Administrator: Howard Case hcase2000@yahoo.com

Project Surnames:

Case	Cass	Casse	Kase

Group General Fund:

01/04/07 - Anonymous donation for the upgrade of Kit 70437 Richard G. Case....$49
01/04/07 - Total available....$49
01/04/07 - Kit 70437....($49)
01/04/07 - Total available....$0
01/10/07 - Anonymous donation to be applied to kit #28766 for an upgrade....$49
01/10/07 - Total available....$49
01/11/07 - Kit 28766....($49)
01/11/07 - Total available....$0

Project Background:

This Project was just established in Nov 2004.

The 12 marker y-chromosome DNA test group price is $99.00. You may order the kit from Family Tree DNA and pay by credit card or have an invoice sent to you. You may order a kit for some other family member who does not want to be identified. The data is kept by kit # only.
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Latest pricing news from FTDNA as of 10/27/06:
By popular demand, and because we really try to listen to our customers' comments, Family Tree DNA is re-instituting the Y-DNA25 marker test for surname projects only. Here is the complete list the new prices:

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Y-Refine25to59 $148
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Project Goals:

The main goal is to provide DNA data links to the various Case lines throughout the United States and Canada. A primary interest is to establish links, if any exist, between the Cases in NC/SC in the early 1700s to the Cases from New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. There are Cases that originated in RI/NY in the mid 1600s who came from England, but only 2 Case male from this line has submitted DNA. This yields two distinct Case lines from England to RI/NY.

There is a distinct possiblity that the Cass/Casse families of New England in the 1600s may be related to the Case surname. We have started a serious effort to contact Cass surname males and have them submit DNA samples. In at least one major development, the same ancestral line used the name Casse and Cass, with some of the descendants using the surname Case.

To join this project, you must supply your Case (or Cass) ancestry from your grandfather back to your earliest known Case ancestor, with dates and places where possible. If you think you may be a Case descendant, but the surname line doesn't match, please do more research into adoptions, illegimate births, etc.

There are 6 kits in the project that are not related at all to any other kit. That means that there are 6 Case lines that need to be developed with new tests from more Case males to see how these lines relate.

Secondarily, we might be able to establish the gateway ancestor for each Case line, and the country of origin. It apears that one gateway ancestor (for the NY Case line) is Henry Case, son of William Case who was born in England.

Wherever possible, please gather as much factual information on your early Case ancestors as you can. It is critical to be able to establish an accurate genealogy of the Case lines. Documented birth records, death records, marriage records, Bible records, census data, deeds, liens, wills, etc. and where those data can be located is very important as we share our ancestry.

Please encourage any Case males you know to purchase the kit and submit their y-chromosome DNA to give us a better family history of the dispersion of the Case families.

If anyone would like to donate some money to the fund for the Case DNA Project, please let me know and I will explain how to do it (see general donation link on the Case webpage). Family Tree DNA accepts donations which can be used to help purchase y-chromosome test kits to be sent to specific individuals whose DNA and documentation will help our research in Case genealogy.

Project News:

9/23/08

We have a new result which matches older kits that, up until recently, had no match. These are from the haplogroup E1b1b1a, which is different from the other northeast Cases. To help differentiate the groups, I have put the haplogroup after the group name. Since these four men have the earliest Case ancestor in the northeast USA, I have named this group Case/Cass(haplo E1b1b1a). This group includes the surname Cass, a descendant of John Casse.

Kit # 104680 results came in for the Carolina group. Even though DYS 385a (a fast mutating allele)is off by one unit, this person is still a known match for my DNA because his grandfather and my grandfather were brothers. This just shows how there can be small mutations within the same family line.

Results for deep SNP-I tests reveal that 7 of the Northeast Cases are M253 subgroup of the main haplogroup I (P19). This sub group is I1a. These results are reflected in the Y-DNA results of our group webpage. I am also part of the I1a (M253) subgroup of the main I haplogroup (P19),which means the Carolina Cases that match my 25-35 markers will also be I1a.

We are now getting a better idea how closely the Northeast Cases are related. In fact, my kit#27579 (SC) is a 36/37 match to kit#83870 (NY) which means that he and I have a 99.99% probability of a common Case ancestor in the past 24 generations and even a 97.51% probability of a common ancestor in the past 12 generations.

I have established what I call Northeast Cases #2 (N/E #2 Ancestors). This group has their oldest known Case male ancestor in Aylesham England and New York. However the DNA of this group is not at all common with the group entitled Northeast Cases. The plot thickens!! We need more Cases to do DNA testing.

There are now 6 kits with no close DNA relationship to any other kit. Hopefully we get some new Case males to submit DNA so we may be able to define some new Case lines.

Based on the tests done , we now know that the Cases from the Carolinas and the Cases from New York have a 99.98% chance or a 97.78% chance of having a common ancestor in the last 24 generations (depends on which Carolina Case you compare to). This appears to confirm that sometime before 1770 Cases from New York migrated south, or separate groups of Cases came to New York and the Carolinas from a common ancestor in England.

I was trying to post the relationships of each of the kits, but we are getting too many test results to make this practical (good news that we are getting such good response). If any one wants to know the exact probability of a match to another kit within a given number of generations, just send me an email and I will forward a report to you.

If you want to determine your own probable haplogroup, go to
https://home.comcast.net/~whitathey/hapest.htm
This is an approximation, but certainly needs to be verified by testing if you want to be certain.

Just because you are a female(x-x chromosomes) Case, don't despair. Try to find a nephew, uncle, father, brother (any direct Case male who carries the y-chromosome) who will take the "cheek swab test" to get DNA from your line. Of course, you may submit a mtDNA test, which tracks the female line.

Any questions or corrections should be submitted to the Group Administrator.

Project Results:

In order to see your results compared to other members, please go to the Family Tree DNA home page at http://www.familytreedna.com/ and log in with your kit number and password in the area "MY FTDNA" Click on the section "Y DNA Matches". You will see a display of those that match or closely match your DNA. Click on the little icon to the right of that person's name and you will see a display of the "probable time to most common ancestor".

If you match someone who has signed a Release Form their name(s) and email addresses are shown on your personal data page. Since this page refers to you, your name and email will not show up here, just people you match. If the same email address appears multiple times then the people listed are members of a group study which has chosen to make the group administrator a single point of contact. Recent matches are at the top of the list. (** indicates additions since your last login.) Only people who sent us SIGNED RELEASE FORMS are eligible to be listed here. If the individuals with whom you have matches have tested for more markers, you will see next to their names, between parenthesis, the number of markers that they have tested for.

There appear to be at least 4 different haplogroups in the Case line, so far.

Haplogroup R1b has been strongly indicated (but not confirmed by test) for kit #28060. R1b has been confirmed by SNP test for kit #35791 (this test was done at no charge by Family Tree DNA).

Haplogroup K2 has been indicated, but not confirmed, for kit #32288.

Haplogroup I has been confirmed, by SNP testing, for kit #35050. The haplogroup for #27579 has been confirmed, by SNP testing, as I. This means that the kits that match kit 27579 or are only off by one or two markers are also haplogroup I. The haplogroup for #35130 has been confirmed by SNP tests as belonging to Group I. This makes it quite clear that kits 35118, 36299, 29294, 28766, 33295 and 27725 are also Group I and no further SNP testing is necessary for these kits. There have been some of the Haplogroup I that have had deep SNP-I testing done to further refine their I sub group. These have resulted in several I1a sub group results. Please go to http://www.familytreedna.com/haplotree.html
to see how the main haplogroup I (P19) breaks down into the various subgroups. I1a is M253, a subgroup of I (p19).

Haplogroup E3b is indicated, but not confirmed, for kit #75801.

The DYS markers shown in red (on the DNA results section of this report) have shown a faster mutation rate then the average, and therefore these markers are very helpful at splitting lineages into sub sets, or branches, within your family tree. Explained another way, if you match exactly on all of the markers except for one or a few of the markers we have determined mutate more quickly, then despite the mutation this mismatch only slightly decreases the probability of two people in your surname group who match 11/12 or even 23/25 of not sharing a recent common ancestor.

In the colored subgroups for the Y results, I have selected two subgroups: Northeast ancestors and Carolina ancestors. These two subgroupings each have commom DNA. There are some people in the Northeast group that have their earliest ancestor who is not from the Northeast, but this group's DNA all descends fron the Cases who migrated from England to the Northeast part of the Colonies.

Please go to http://www.ftdna.com/faq2.html
to see the various probabilities for various times to the MRCA (Most Recent Common Ancestor)

DNA Test Results (mtDNA) for Project Members