Billie Harris - Sep 5, 2008
Diane Langston, a member of this site and who also has her own web site, had three of her cousins each do a DNA test. Today the results of one of those individuals was received. He descends from Thomas Llewellyn of Rockingham County, N.C. through Ernest Lee Llewellyn. So far, the results don't match with the other DNAs but more than likely will match with his other two cousins. The numbers are:
Haplogroup R1b1b2. Numbers:
13 24 14 11 11 14 12 12 11 14 13 29
John Corn: Would you mind adding those to your chart.
John Corn - Sep 5, 2008
Done.
Billie Harris - Sep 5, 2008
John, sorry but I neglected to tell you that Larry Lewallen's haplogroup is also R1b1b2. I don't know the others'.
Billie Harris - Sep 7, 2008
Another DNA test result has been received. It's for Carol Lewallen's dad. Carol and her father descend from Anderson Lewallen (1764-1825) to Andrew Lewallen (1793-1873), and Walter Davis Lewallen (1831-1896)
Haplogroup R1B1b2.
Numbers 12 24 14 10 11 14 12 12 13 13 29
It's a perfect match with the descendant of Wiley Lewallen (born 1795 N.C.) but from my own research, it seems to me that Anderson Lewallen had a brother Jesse and Wiley MAY have been Jesse's son. I have no proof but that's just the way it apepars to me.
John, would you please add it to your chart.
Carol Lewallen - Sep 8, 2008
Hi Billie, I was wondering which Thomas Llewellyn this result refers to? Is the 1750 or 1788 or some other Thomas. I'm trying to find out cause there wasn't a year up there just a Co.
Thanks,
Carol Lewallen
Billie Harris - Sep 9, 2008
Carol, the Thomas Llewellyn was born 1771 Virginia and died 1861 North Carolina. The descendants lived in Rockingham County, North Carolina. Diane Langston's site has more on the family:
http://dlangsto.googlepages.com/home
Billie Harris - Sep 12, 2008
With Ike looming over Houston, I would think there may be a delay in getting some of our DNA results which are due out about now. The administrators of DNA projects have received e-mails from Bennett Greenspan of FamilyTreeDNA advising us that all their materials have been backed up and are safe.
It looks like a severe hurricane entering Texas and Louisiana. I know we're all praying for the safety of the people and their homes there.
Billie Harris - Sep 15, 2008
Just received an update from Bennett Greenspan, President of FamilyTreeDNA. Here's what he wrote:
Dear Customers,
As a follow-up to our letter informing you of the level of preparedness Family Tree DNA established regarding the coming of Hurricane Ike to Houston, we are coming to you now to update you on our status post-Ike.
a) As you may know, all of our standard Y-DNA and mtDNA tests are processed at the lab in Arizona, and therefore, this processing has not been affected at all.
b) Also, as we advised previously, we have taken appropriate measures to safeguard and protect the data and our servers and therefore all computer systems are in place and functioning normally. You may have noticed that our web sites have been up, available, and are running normally as they were before and during the storm.
c) The building where Family Tree DNA's offices and Houston laboratory are located is without power, like most of Houston office buildings, and sustained damage, like so many other Houston office buildings. This means that the building will be closed for the next few days until it is ready for tenants to return. Despite this situation, several members of our staff have worked over the weekend to transfer equipment to other locations so that our normal office operations can resume on Monday, or at the latest on Tuesday, from an alternate location. All postal mail will be picked up normally at our local post office, so that kits can be checked-in and processed normally.
d) The coming days will allow us to have a better assessment of when our Houston lab will resume normal operations, at which point we will be back to you again with additional information about any delays in delivering results for the advanced tests that our lab processes in Houston. (Advanced panels, FGS and Deep Clade Y SNP's)
Please forgive us if in the next few days we don't meet our standard level of customer service as to e-mails and phone calls. We will be back to normal as soon as possible. We appreciate your continued support
Billie Harris - Sep 20, 2008
UPDATE FROM FAMILYTREEDNA:
Dear Customers,
As a follow-up to our letter informing you of the level of preparedness Family Tree DNA established regarding the coming of Hurricane Ike to Houston, we are coming to you now to update you on our status post-Ike.
a) As you may know, all of our standard Y-DNA and mtDNA tests are processed at the lab in Arizona, and therefore, this processing has not been affected at all.
b) Also, as we advised previously, we have taken appropriate measures to safeguard and protect the data and our servers and therefore all computer systems are in place and functioning normally. You may have noticed that our web sites have been up, available, and are running normally as they were before and during the storm.
c) The building where Family Tree DNA's offices and Houston laboratory are located is without power, like most of Houston office buildings, and sustained damage, like so many other Houston office buildings. This means that the building will be closed for the next few days until it is ready for tenants to return. Despite this situation, several members of our staff have worked over the weekend to transfer equipment to other locations so that our normal office operations can resume on Monday, or at the latest on Tuesday, from an alternate location. All postal mail will be picked up normally at our local post office, so that kits can be checked-in and processed normally.
d) The coming days will allow us to have a better assessment of when our Houston lab will resume normal operations, at which point we will be back to you again with additional information about any delays in delivering results for the advanced tests that our lab processes in Houston. (Advanced panels, FGS and Deep Clade Y SNP's)
Please forgive us if in the next few days we don't meet our standard level of customer service as to e-mails and phone calls. We will be back to normal as soon as possible. We appreciate your continued support .
E-mail us anytime!
Bennett Greenspan Max Blankfeld
President Vice-President, Operations and Marketing
bcg@familytreedna.com max@familytreedna.com