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Group Administrator: Ted Tedford And Janet Burks CROWNT@aol.com,
Group Co-Administrator: jm@burksfam.net

Project Surnames:

Tedford	Telford	Tilford

Project Background:

We all know the surname TEDFORD is not one of common listing, therefore it has for many years been believed that we of that name were related at some point since the 1750s. I had been told this by my father back in the 1960s.

With the use of this DNA project we now have the means to help connect the dots and make it clear as to why some of us run into the walls believing that for some reason the public records were lost or destroyed by fire or some other calamity.

Most of us have, in the course of researching our respective family histories; have corresponded with Tedford families in Canada, Australia and Britain all of which are asking how we are related. DNA may help to answer that, the greatest question most of can have. Just how does this name tie in?

Please contact us for more information:
Ted Tedford email: CROWNT@aol.com
Janet Burks email: jm@burksfam.net

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Project Goals:

Our goal is simple: We want to prove once and for all, to those who wish to know their ancestry, just how do we all connect?

Many or most of us have traced our families back using the public records; i.e. Birth records, family Bibles, Census records both federal and local, as well as letters from the attic cedar chest an all other such means. But, many of us find ourselves contending with a collection of what someone back the 1920s has for what ever reason thrown together information confusing the whole documented world. It has become as though someone has put all of the names in a hat and left it open to reach in and create a family line just to them selves.

Now, with this simple test we can sort out all of the confusion as to what lines connect and hopefully when and where they split apart. No blood is required to be drawn, just two simple swab samples from in side the mouth over an eight hour period. These samples are kept in strict confidentiality and sent off to the Houston central office, from there sent on to the laboratory in California. It can take six to ten weeks to have the results returned to us but when you think of the years some of us have invested in searching lost lines and lost leads, six weeks is nothing in comparison.

The more members we have the more exact our information will be.

Project Results:

What we have learned thus far is that some of the cousins we thought we had are no more related to us than Smith and Jones. Shocking! Well, yes it is. But knowing the facts is what genealogy is all about. If we are not searching for the truth than why bother with the search in the first place?

Janet Burks and I had thought for years that we were at some point related and saw ourselves as cousins. We had developed that bond between us. Using this project we now know that our lines are not related. We can continue researching with this knowledge for cousins that do DNA match us.

We have been able to connect one man to his rightful family line and verified some other line connections; most recently we have dispelled one belief in the connection of the David Tedford line of Hardeman Co. TN. to that of Capt. John’s line out of Blount Co. TN. Strangely this is one of the examples of the Smith and Jones relationships I had mentioned.

For additional information concerning our project you may contact Janet Burks at: jm@burksfam.net

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