From: jhh@houston.rr.com [jhayes18@houston.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 2:55 PM
To: Joe Peery
Subject: a data manipulation ?
You are obviously very good at managing software and all that never-ending genealogy information. So here's a question for you.
I'm considering compiling a specific list of Isaac's male descendants only with the surname Hays/Hayes, since the Y-Chromosome DNA marker is passed only from father to son (theoretically with only a slight chance of a mutation every 500 years).
Every Hays/Hayes male in this specifically compiled list would (theoretically) have my exact 25 markers, and thus possibly be a comparison tool (if I can track one down and get him to DNA test, or perhaps he's already done it and I don't know).
Is it possible with your software to generate a report consisting only of male descendants with the Hays/Hayes surname? And if so, would it be too much of a pain in the ass to do so?
Also, I don't recall your age ... but do you have someone in your line to pass on all your genealogy material to someday? There's nobody in my Mose Hayes line, which ends with my brother and me, and I'd like to give all my material to somebody who can appreciate it (when I'm done with it).
I looked at my stuff at Mom's today = Mose's original Bible and records, Granny's handwritten Durham records, lots of pics, etc. (Not to even mention all the things on my Maternal side, which doesn't really interest me anymore.
Mom's people have been bugging me for years for my documentation but I guess I'm mean, because I don't like any of them and I tell them to go find their own stuff, like I did from scratch!)
When Mom passes I want to give all my stuff to somebody on my paternal side. Do you want it and can you use it? You are by far the most organized genealogist I have ever known. Your "Descendants of Isaac Hays" amazes me!
James