A Study of the Caperton Genealogy

  Let's see, did I talk about the Clappertons yet?   I will do that first.  There are many Clappertons in Scotland.  They are not very interested in genealogy and no one wants to talk to me so far.  I spent last week researching the Clapperton surname.  I found several family trees online but those that made the trees do not know anything that would help me.  They were kind enough to respond, but could not give me any added info. If I could just get a Clapperton to do a DNA test I could get on with my work, either excluding them or not by the results of the testing.  Like I could eliminate the Cunninghams because there were absolutely no matches, not even close.  Getting sleepy.

So now that I have examined several Scottish DNA pages of thousands of people, I have found no matches for my Caperton yet.  Out of the thousands, there were only about 15 that even started with the first number of our DNA count. 14 24 14 10 11-14 12 13 11 12 13 29    These are the first 11 markers.  To find a match, it has to match here.  Then if you find this match, you go on to more markers.  If you match there or have just a couple that are close, then go on to more markers.  If you match, you are related.  Most of the numbers of the people in the projects began with 13. Ours, as you can see, begins with 14.   In my project, we have 4 men that tested and they all match perfectly.  They are all from different fathers in the line descending from John Caperton who came to America from Scotland in 1725.  We tested up to 67 markers. www.familytreedna.com/public/Caperton.default.aspx?section=yresults A few years ago, I got an email from Frank Whillens.  He had found that we matched