Project News
May 23, 2008
What better time than Memorial Day to establish a Yahoo Group focused on the history of the Cumberland Gap area, its families and the DNA results of the descendants of our ancestors who settled those stunning mountains.
DNA has become a very important tool in the genealogists’ and historians’ toolbox, as it allows us to identify those to whom we are related, either within or outside of known family surnames.
For some time now, I've been trying to figure out exactly how to facilitate communications between our DNA project members, both yline and mtdna. I tried to set up a rootsweb group, but rootsweb told me that the Cumberland Gap was not a geographic location. Now I got a good chuckle out of that.
Fortunately, Yahoo groups is much more accommodating. I have set up a Yahoo group called Cumberland Gap History, Genealogy and DNA for our group members and anyone else who has a particular interest in the Cumberland Gap area.
The goal is to facilitate friendly discussions and the exchange of information both genealogical and historical about events that took place in that general geographic area, data that exists like tax lists, deeds, etc., and the families who settled and lived in this beautiful area.
Please join the group, have fun, learn a little something, share with others and find your family.
To join, send at e-mail to:
CumberlandGap-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
You will receive a confirmation message that you have successfully joined.
Then you can post messages by sending them to:
CumberlandGap@yahoogroups.com
To check out the archives or other items on the webpage, you can visit the group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CumberlandGap/
Communications from Penny and I will be through the Yahoo group and not through Family Tree DNA’s e-mail broadcast capability. The sheer number of participants causes us to be labeled as spammers, which is why we created the Yahoo group. Besides, it gives everyone a chance to chat.
Roberta Estes
February 12, 2007
Dear Cumberland Gap Y-line DNA group members,
Hello once again. I recently received a note from someone asking if I'm still the administrator of the group. I guess that means it's probably been too long since I've sent a note to the members. I apologize. Please take the time to read the entire newsletter, as it is lengthy, but there are lots of good tips and information that will help you with your genealogy and understanding the Cumberland Gap area and people.
As you've probably noticed, the group with 713 members has grown significantly. I used to send a personal welcome message to everyone, but the volume has gotten to the level when I just can't do that anymore, so welcome to everyone.
First, this project is for Y-line results ONLY, meaning your paternal line, the same as men's last name (unless they were adopted). If you have joined this project because your maternal (mother, her mother, etc.) is from the Cumberland Gap area, then you are in the wrong project and you need to unjoin the Cumberland Gap Y-DNA project and join the Cumberland Gap mtdna project using the blue JOIN button on your personal page. If your paternal and maternal lines are both from the Cumberland Gap area, then you need to join BOTH projects. This is the only way I can be sure that only the results that are relevant to the Gap are displayed. If you're in the wrong project, please take this opportunity to fix that problem.
For more information on how to work with your results, please see the project results section of this page.