Hi, The person matching Nancy Ward's DNA (a schoolteacher in California) had been raised as a sort of orphan and only knew that he "had some sort of Indian." When he matched an enrolled Cherokee and descendant of Dragging Canoe he contacted the CNO, EBCI and a state-recognized tribe. I am sorry to report the rebuff he received from all three. After 200 hundred years of requiring affidavits and scientific proof from Indians to prove they are Indians, the government-administered Indian tribes and bands of today cannot deal with DNA proof. Chief Blevins of the Whitetop Band of Sizemore Indians was right on the money: Every Sizemore from a DNA line that has tested Q should be recognized as a descendant of the original indigenous people of this country (Fed. definition of American Indian). It's as plain as the nose on the face of a bureaucrat sitting in Washington with his feet propped on the desk. I wish the Sizemores would reorganize.
You ask what next... Elizabeth Hirschman and I have written a 380 page study of the origins of Scotland, its clans and its mercantilism, connecting many famous names in her history to the Davidic state in France ca. 750 and settlement of Jews in GGlasgow, Perthshire and Aberdeen during the various expulsions and pograms in Europe. The manuscript has been accepted by a major publisher of Judaica and will be introduced by Rabbi Arnold Mark Belzer, an expert on Chinese Jews. After that we plan to look at the Sephardic contribution to the Plymouth Colony, Jamestown, Charleston and western movement in America. Whether with Beth or not, I also want to write a study of Judaism among Southeastern Indians.

In July there will be a workshop at the Fourth International Conference on Diversity in Los Angeles. Hirschman will deliver a paper on "The Origins of Scotland," and I will deliver one on "DNA and Population Studies." We are looking for additional contributions for the workshop that will address Ethnicity, Genetics, Judaica or Native American studies. An abstract of the workshop follows:

DNA, Ethnicity, Genetics and Genealogy: Mapping History and Culture with Haplogroup Studies and Surname Research
Donald Neal Panther-Yates, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman.



DNA analysis of over 150 prominent surnames in the Melungeon DNA Project reveals a Jewish and Moorish settlement pattern in Glasgow, Perthshire and Aberdeen from the Norman period onward. Some Scottish clans appear to have had ethnically Jewish founders. Crypto-Jewish practices are documented in many of Scotland's guilds, merchant societies, burial grounds and Templar activities. Sephardic Jews, Moors, Muslims and Marranos from the Continent found a welcome in Scottish society during the English, French and Spanish persecution of Jews beginning in the 13th century. These same families were influential in shaping Presbyterianism, establishing the Ulster Scots plantations in Ireland, and developing international trade. After immigration to America, they dominated the westward movement on the frontier, including the assimilation of American Indian tribes, land development, and introduction of manufacturing, from Tennessee to Texas.
Best regards,
Donald Panther-Yates