Hello everyone!

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The formal part of the Yates Cousin DNA Study has concluded.? I am grateful and want to thank the twenty cousins and others who gave me access to their DNA matches generating 375 unduplicated Yates ancestral lines to study.? We have achieved much more than anticipated with this study.

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Although the formal part is over, the effort to improve and extend what we have started will never truly be done if someone is willing to work on it.? The effort began with a thought borne out of desperation as to not having useful actionable DNA information.

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We now have the basis of a “Yates Cousin DNA Ancestral Index”.? The purpose of this index is to assist you in connecting your Yates ancestor tree. If you find your ancestor in either the MDA column (most distant ancestor) or the LCA column (last common ancestor) you will be able to connect your Yates line based on DNA connections. A LUNY# (Line Unique Number Yates) has been assigned to each line of Yates ancestors and their descendants which allows for referencing this Index and specifically your ancestral line.

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The index has been created in such a way that newly unmasked ancestral lines can be added and assigned their own LUNY#.? The other features include that this index is accessible world-wide and will be preserved forever by the Guild of one-name-studies.

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I will add an image showing your name code and the LUNY#’s associated with your DNA matches.? More importantly, if you access the index with the provided link you will be able to also see how you and your DNA matches fit into the overall pattern of Yates ancestral lines, please try the sorting.

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In the immediate future there will be an effort to audit the lines to ensure correctness to the best of our ability and revise the white paper draft now that we have learned more and have a usable final project.

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Please accept my personal thanks for helping me do this crazy project!

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tinyurl.com/Yates-Cousin-DNA-Index