I have written before about various family societies who are undertaking
DNA research projects to prove or disprove family relationships. The Boone Family
Society has been conducting such a study, and it recently produced a surprise
for one young man who was not named Boone.
The following was written by Dell Ariola, who is involved in the
Boone family DNA Project:
One of the participants in our study was not born with the Boone
surname. When he was fifty-three years old, his mother told him his biological
father was a World War II military officer, Lt. Boone of Army Intelligence.
Lt. Boone probably would have been born around 1920.
Our participant had tried for several years to find information
to verify this, without success. One day, he came across our DNA Web site
while surfing (serendipity??) and wrote to ask if, under his circumstances
would he be eligible to participate in order to prove or disprove his Boone
ancestry. He was informed that this DNA project could very well prove or disprove
his Boone lineage.
A few weeks later, his Y-DNA resulted in an eleven out of twelve
marker match with another of our documented and verified Boone participants,
proving that the two of them shared a Most Recent Common Ancestor probably
within the past two-hundred-and-ninety-two years (after the early 1700s).
They are both having enhanced Y-DNA testing of nine (nine) additional markers,
(a total of twenty-one markers) in order to get a tighter time frame.
Our participant has already hired an attorney and begun the
process to proudly have his surname changed to Boone.
Great story! Someone with a previously undocumented paternal family
history now has scientific proof that he is descended from this family.
You may contact Dell Ariola at: dell.ariola@gte.net
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