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11 March 2009 ARTHUR WILLIAM BOOKOUT All 67 markers of Arthur William Bookout's results are back and, with one notable and very interesting exception, match marker for marker the 37 markers we have for the genetic profile of Joseph Bookout 1. There is no question whatsoever that Arthur is a blood descendant of Joseph Bookout 1. The notable exception is at your marker 35 (DYS #CDYb) where your value (allele) is 40 instead of 39. The value of 40 at this marker had been thought unique to the line of descent from Marmaduke, but Arthur's paper trail is solid from (but not through) Joseph 2. (Jed Gentry Bookout and William Marion Bookout, both from Joseph 1 through Joseph 2, have 39 at marker 35). To date you, Arthur and Henry Wade Bookout are the only Bookouts who have results at 67. Arthur's markers and Henry's are an exact match (GD = 0). George W. Brown, who is a long-time DNA student and genealogist of the Rose family suggests that marker 35 (DYS #CDYb) is the most fragile of all the markers, the most likely of all to change (mutate). For this reason on the strength of this one marker it would not be prudent to insist that Arthur descended from Marmaduke instead of from Joseph 2. Cindy Dickinson writes that Arthur's paper trail is solid back on paper back through John (married Prothanea) but not through Joseph 2. We know from the 1800 census that Joseph 2 had a son form 1790-1800 and a daughter the same age. We assume this son and daughter to be the children of Joseph 2 because of their age (no names are listed). We know Joseph 2 is likely the Joseph Bookout who signed the marriage record of Levi Bookout in 1817 in Lincoln Co., NC. If true, this would indicate that Levi was Joseph 2's son. Levi was born 1780. The next census we have on Joseph 2 is 1830 Lincoln Co., NC, which lists only Widow Bookout (head of household) with 3 males b. 1800-1810, 1810-1815, 1820-1830. (The daughter was possibly married by then). In the 1840 Lincoln Co., NC census Sarah Bookout is listed as head of household with 1 female, b. 1825-1830. The DNA results of James Broc Bookout will be even more interesting now. He is g-s/o James Rodney, s/o Eldred Doyce, s/o David Roy, s/o James Lewis, s/o Elias, s/o David (md Eve) who we, as we had Arthur, William, to be s/o Joseph I2. Will James Broc Bookout's results show marker 35 (DYS #CDYb) = 40?
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10 March 2009 DANFORD ARTIE BOOKOUT All of Danford Artie Bookout's results are back. It is clear that Dan's most distantly known ancestor, Branson, was a different breed of Bookout from any that we have seen to date. Out of 37 markers there are 18 differences (GD = 18), which calculates out to be that in the last 24 generations there is only a % 0.02 chance that Branson has a common ancestor with Joseph Bookout 1. We don't have to give up the idea that Branson was the son of John Bookout and Zilpha Wright, only that he was the natural son of John. From this distance in time, for example, it is impossible to say that John Bookout was Zilpha's first husband. It is within the realm of possibility that John was Zilpha's 2nd marriage and that Branson became a Bookout from Zilpha's former marrige. If this is not true, then something like this could be true. Branson was born on Randolph County, North Carolina, the same place where Joseph Bookout 1 died and is buried. Branson's ancestry is all the more interesting for us to research, and we have more to go on now that we have his genetic Y-DNA results. Dan's Matches will be watched closely on his FTDNA personal pages and on ysearch.org.
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25 February 2009 BRUSHING YOUR CHEEKS Rod Bookout, whose sister was Sondra Pettit (b 1940, d 2002 both in MS, and who made many Bookout contributions) wrote, "I would like to have DNA testing done on my grandson, he is three now, but i hope to interest him in his ancestors before i am gone." Rod thinks his grandson will remember. Three-year-old James Broc Bookout said after his test, "Daddy makes me brush my teeth, grandaddy makes me brush my cheeks!"
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3 February 2009 WILLIAM MARION BOOKOUT William Marion Bookout's DNA test results are back and at all 37 markers match exactly the genetic profile of Joseph 1 as it has been established by Y-DNA testing. Thomas Lafeyette Bookout, from whom William Marion Bookout descends, and Thomas Lafeyetter's' brother James Henry Bookout, from whom Ged Gentry Bookout descend, thus have a common ancestor, John Williamson Bookout, who was also predicted by their paper trail. Jed Gentry Bookout and William Marion Bookout are an exact match at all 37 places on their 37 Y-DNA markers. Their Genetic Distance = 0. (Marvin Russell Bookout's Y-DNA results also are a 37/37 match with Jed and William and fit Joseph 1's genetic profile exactly.) John Williamson's father, Levi, and Levi's father Joseph 2 now by both Jed's, and William's tests, are seen to be in a direct line to and through Joseph 1. (1) Stephen Thaddeus (Steve Gibb's grandfather) and his brother (2) Hubert Bookout, both half-brothers of (3) James Henry Bookout and (4) Thomas Lafeyette Bookout, all four had John Williamson Bookout as their common ancestor. Stephen Gibbs, who is in the Bookout line through his mother Evelyn Bookout (daughter of Stephen Thaddeus Bookout) won last December 2008's Contest with the Bookout story his mother used to tell: Stephen's father Gibbs used to frequent the library where Evelyn was studying to "check a Bookout." (It's not an exaggeration to say that Stephen's existence is the result of the favorable outcome of these checks). Stephen's children do not inculde boys, so has a proxy to take his test. William Marion Bookout filled the bill exactly. Bill's son Mark played contact man for his father Bill. Mak, Bill, and Frank Bookout have been Bookout researchers for many years. Hubert Bookout, above, an early 20th Century Bookout researcher was hard put to secure Levi in his line of Bookouts. He would be very pleased to learn that Y-DNA testing has shown that Levi Bookout was a natural link in his line.
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28 JANUARY 2009 UPDATES
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Steven James Bookout's results were originally thought to indicate a unique Bookout line. We now know that Randie Russell Bookout's 37 markers match Steven James Bookout's 37 markers exactly. Joseph Bookout who married Mary "Polly" Oversteet at the present time appears to be their common ancestor. The test results of John Rogers Bookout is expected to shed more light on this line of Bookouts.
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HAPLOGROUPS and HAPLOTYPES Just remember that haplotypes are what get tested in your Y-DNA tests. Members can see their haplotypes when they go to "DYS Values" on their FTDNA personal pages. These are relatively fast moving markers (STR's) that make it possible in a genealogical time frame to tell one family from another. Haplogroups are defined by mutations (SNP's) on the Y chromosome. These SNP mutations indicate the branching of the human family tree that can be as old as tens or hundreds of thousands of years old. SNPs define haplotrees (and haplogroups). They are mutations at a single place in a strand of DNA that occur only once in all of human evolution. STRs define haplotypes. They are the numerical number of times a short strand of DNA at a certain place (locus) repeats itself. Relative to SNPs they are fast moving. They are useful in determining family groups in a genealogical time frame. To see your place on the human family tree (your Haplogroup) click "Haplotree" on your first FTDNA personal page. Members can go to Haplotree on their personal pages and see at the upper right hand corner of the human family tree their Haplogroup as R1b1b2 Shorhand: R-M269. Look at the second page of your Haplotree. Look down on the right in the branching for M269 = R1b1b2. There is a Deep Clade ("Remote Branch") test which further refines one's Haplogroup beyond what you see on the upper right of your Haplotree page. I ordered the Deep Clade analysis of my DNA sample. My Haplogroup was refined and confirmed to be "R1b1b2a1b5, Shorthand M222 +," a refinement and 12 lines down from R1b1b2 = M269. We can now infer that M222 is also the Haplogroup with all members who have my haplotype; Marvin David Bookout, Jed Gentry Bookout, and Marvin Russell Bookout. The mutation (SNP M222) is usually believed to have occurred about 2000 years ago. Those who have it share a common ancestor who lived around 2000 YBP or 0 A.D. Randie Russell Bookout has ordered a FTDNA Deep Clade test. Randie's resusts will apply also to Stephen James Bookout and everyone in their lines back to their common ancestor. Haplogroup SNP's can be extrapolated to indicate the time and the geographical area of the branching of the human family tree. This sounds technical, and it is. But it is well worth the effort to try to understand, since it implies the immense journey of human kind from a brave, little band out of Africa, branching out all over the word "to be fruitful and multiply, to replenish the earth and subdue it."
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YSEARCH.ORG Ysearch.org is a place maintained by FTDNA where people from all over the world, tested by companies other than FTDA, can upload their results for comparison by all. It is in this pond, Genealogy-dna experts go to ysearch.org to get the data for their hypotheses and conclusions.. So it is very important that all of our Bookout data is uploaded coherently, systematically, and accurately to ysearch.org. In setting up accounts for our Bookout's on ysearch, those who have the same haplotype as Henry Wade Bookout, we know have the same haplogroup as Henry Wade Bookout (FTDNA confirmed (M222 + ). Therefore on ysearch, the pop-up window for haplogroup is now set the same as for Henry Wade Bookout, at R1b1b2a1b5 = M222, for Marvin David Bookout, Jed Gentry Bookout, Marvin Russell Bookout, and William Marion Bookout.
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MARVIN RUSSELL BOOKOUT Marvin Russell Bookout's results are back and indicate direct parental d
escent from Joseph 1 Bookout but do not indicate which son of Joseph 1 he descended from. ____________________ NEW TESTS Three tests were ordered 23-25 January 2009 for Bookouts all thought to descend from Marmaduke: (1) Jack(ie) Winford Bookout's Jacob "Jake" Alexander's parentage should be clarified. (2) William Gipson Bookout's results may cement the parentage of Marmaduke M.D., age 25, who appears in another household in the 1850 Arkansas census. (3) Ben Hill Bookout has a solid paper trail back to Charles L. Bookout, who is the common ancestor of himself and Henry Wade Bookut. Charles L. Bookout was a son of Marmaduke and an ideal "node" for testing to help determine when and in what generation Marmaduke's marker occurred (Locus CDYb mutated from 39 to 40). The priority of an attempt to find Marmaduke's marker in a systematic way over the same effort for John (Locus DYS 447 mutated from 25 to 24 ) arose from the the assumption that better knowledge of Marmaduke's line could help resolve the ambiguity of Marvin Russell's results.
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DANFORD ARTIE BOOKOUT Dan is 10th Bookout to sign up for testing. Dan's line is >Artie Clarence > James Dorthan >Simeon Ellis >William Gene Branson ?>John > Joseph 1. If it turns out that Branson is the s/o John, s/o Joseph 1, Branson would be the brother of Wright Bookout. His kit was sent to him 29 Dec 2008. Welcom, Dan, to the Bookout Surname Project! JED GENTRY BOOKOUT Jed Gentry Bookout's 12, 25, and 37 marker test results are back and show that there is a 99% probability that he has a recent common ancestor with Marvin David Bookout (>John, s/o Jospeh 1) and Henry Wade Bookout (>Marmaduke, s/o Joseph 1). These test prove genetically that the paper trail we have showing Jed Gentry Bookout as a descendant of Joseph 2, s/o Joseph 1 is solid. Jed's pedigree is as follows: Jed Gentry Bookout Pedigree Meg Gentry Bookout [bookoutATqnet.com] Thomas William, b 10 Sep 1887, Parker Co TX, m 4 Jimmie Lillian Adams James Henry, b 7 Mar 1842, McMinn Co TN, m 2 Elizabeth Clifton John Willliamson, b 20 Sep 1815, Lincoln Co NC, Cecelia Massingale Levi, b 1780, NC, Nancy Swaringame Joseph 2, b c 1752, NC or VA, m Sarah ? Joseph 1, b c 1700,birthplace ?, m ? Jed is an exact match with Marvin David Bookout at 12 markers, an exact match with Henry Wade Bookout and a genetic distance of 1 with Marvin David Bookout at 25 markers, and at 37 markers a genetic distance of 1 with Marvin David Bookout and Henry Wade Bookout. Joseph Bookout 2 is now proven genetically to be the brother of John and Marmaduke, all brothers, most probably with Joseph 1 as their most recent common ancestor.
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CONTEST ENTRIES
(1) I was a runner throughout my childhood (went to track on a college scholarship)* and our Bookout family name was listed in Runners World magazine back in the early 1980's as one of the top 'runner' names ... you might remember when to go fast you "bookout". [vb "to book out"; to go fast; cf. peel out] PS: Submitter notes, "Earned my undergraduate degree . . . in 1986 and still hold the 3000m record and am in the top 10 for several other events. Loved those times ..." - - How's that for "booking out!"
*sic. Scholarship to Track College, eh? Read: "Went to college on a track scholarship." Note: entry submitted at 1:26:42 AM!
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(2) We used to get several phone calls wanting to know if we had a particular book.? They thought we were a library.
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(3) When asked where our name comes from, I always respond: "Well you see, we were all pretty much farmers in the old days and we got our name from the chickens." CHICKENS?! they ask rather incredulously. "Yeah. You know like: Buck-buck-buckoUUUUT!" I freely admit that my rendition of a chicken pluckin' [*] ain't really pretty........ _______________________________________ *Ed. maybe the submitter meant "clucki' " for "pluckin' "; but who knows? submitter may have chanted "Buck-buck-buckoUUUUT" while "pluckin' " chickens. Either way, it's "really pretty.
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4) " LOOKOUT for BOOKOUT " ************************************************************** (5a) When I was in 1st grade at Lawarence Elementary, Wichita, KS, the school librarian was named "Stella Storey." Of course the students called her Miss Tella Story. She was an old maid, but used to say that she was waiting for my baby brother to grow up, so she could be "Tella Storey Bookout." (5b) In the same vien, my name is pronounced Gina and I was usually called Jene, pronounced Gene. In my early teen years I had to tolerate the giggles when some oh, so clever boy would yell Hi Jene. (say that out loud, you'll get it.) I was always mortified when one particular jokestar asked another boy, "Are you taking Hi Jene Book...out?" Later on, if I refused a second date with any boy, my father used to say that the boy had failed the Hi Jene test.
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6) Though I was not born a Bookout, I have been married to one for over 30 years. When we were expecting our first child, the doctor suspected it might be twins. The nurse quipped "well, if it is twins, you could call them Check-a and Take-a." Luckily, it was a singleton (grin) [a boy!]
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(7) In the 1950's during the Korean War the South Korean soldiers became noted for fading away when they were attacked by the North Korean soldiers. The U. S. soldiers often said during a battle that the South Koreans had bugged out or were bugging out. When the outfit that I was in arrived in Korea it didn't take too long for us to become familiar with these terms. You can imagine that my name presented many possibilities. Whenever I had any responsibility that required contact with the others in my outfit I was jokingly told to bugout Bookout. It wasn't long before my name became bugout in that outfit. Needless to say, I finally accepted the good natured ribbing and answered to bugout. Therefore bugout is my entry.
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(8) My mom . . . told this story: When my father was courting her at college . . . , his friends would tease him when he would go to study with her. They would say "Hey . . . , are you going to the library to check a Bookout?".
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(9) A Little Laugh* Little Barton, Florida derisively referred to its big sister as "Cracker Atlanta" where, on the birth of John James, Jr. in 1902, there was - - Little Barton, FL noted in the manner of a literary announcement - - "a new book out" named "John, Jr." "Barton, Fla. 'Cracker Atlanta has a citizen named John Bookout.' When John, Jr., made his appearance, the local papers headed the item - - 'A new book out.' " - - 'Talks About Town,' "The Atlanta [Cracker] Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. 14 Aug 1903.
*The submitter wishes to remain anonymous. Although the entry concerns my grandfather, John James Bookout, and a newspaper exchange bearing on the birth of his son, John James Bookout, Jr., I am not the submitter. Should the anonymous submitter happen to win, his prize would be to defer to the runner up or to break a tie in the runners up. So, this understood, I post #9 to the Bookout Surname Web page Contest. Henry Bookout
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(10) My mother was a Bookout and I've heard the name all my life but have never heard anyone make a comment about the name, so these stories were fun. The closest I got was when I once told someone I researched Bookout they started laughing and laughing. I just looked at them and they apologized and said that was the funniest name they had ever heard.
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PROJECT PARTICIPANTS Project participants have been assigned Subgroups Marmaduke, Joseph 2, Charles, and John (although not in this order of birth of the 4 sons of J 1). Jed Gentry Bookout's 12 marker test has a target pending date of 12/12 and his 25 & 37 marker tests are pending on 12/26. So it has been a long wait for Jed. His results are especially important to the whole Project because they will establish our 4th Subgroup, Joseph 2, s/o J 1. Maura's Dad's 37 marker results are complete with a G(enetic) D(istance) of 2 from Henry's predicting a 99% probability of a common ancestor with Henry Bookout. Marvin David Bookout established our Subgroup John. We still need to figure out Steve's contradictory results. His familial descent is set firmly in the line of the Subgroup, Charles As of, 12 Nov 2008, a testing kit has been mailed to Bobby Wayne Bookout. Welcome, Wayne, to the Bookout Surname Project. When Wayne's results are in he will also be in the Subgroup Charles Marvin Russell Bookout has also ordered a test kit. His line is mysterious ending with a Marma D. Bookout, about whom very little of substance is known. (He may be a s/o Jesse?) His Marma D., of course, almost certainly places him in the Subgroup Marmaduke. Marvin Russell, welcome to our Project. Randie Russell Bookout has joined the Bookout Surname Project. His kit will be mailed to him on Monday, 17 November. When Randie"s results are in it will be the first time that we can compare two lines that diverge far back from Charles, s/o Joseph 1: Randie from Charles H. and Steve from James, brothers, both sons of Joseph and Mary "Polly" Overstreet ( < Charles < Joseph 1). Welcome Randie Russell Bookout to the Bookout Surname Project!
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PLEASE DONATE TO THE GENERAL FUND There is an urgent need for donations to the General Fund if we are going to continue to attract large numbers of gentlemen Bookouts to the Surname Project. Think about this, please, and do what you can.
11 March 2009 ARTHUR WILLIAM BOOKOUT All 67 markers of Arthur William Bookout's results are back and, with one notable and very interesting exception, match marker for marker the 37 markers we have for the genetic profile of Joseph Bookout 1. There is no question whatsoever that Arthur is a blood descendant of Joseph Bookout 1. The notable exception is at your marker 35 (DYS #CDYb) where your value (allele) is 40 instead of 39. The value of 40 at this marker had been thought unique to the line of descent from Marmaduke, but Arthur's paper trail is solid from (but not through) Joseph 2. (Jed Gentry Bookout and William Marion Bookout, both from Joseph 1 through Joseph 2, have 39 at marker 35). To date you, Arthur and Henry Wade Bookout are the only Bookouts who have results at 67. Arthur's markers and Henry's are an exact match (GD = 0). George W. Brown, who is a long-time DNA student and genealogist of the Rose family suggests that marker 35 (DYS #CDYb) is the most fragile of all the markers, the most likely of all to change (mutate). For this reason on the strength of this one marker it would not be prudent to insist that Arthur descended from Marmaduke instead of from Joseph 2. Cindy Dickinson writes that Arthur's paper trail is solid back on paper back through John (married Prothanea) but not through Joseph 2. We know from the 1800 census that Joseph 2 had a son form 1790-1800 and a daughter the same age. We assume this son and daughter to be the children of Joseph 2 because of their age (no names are listed). We know Joseph 2 is likely the Joseph Bookout who signed the marriage record of Levi Bookout in 1817 in Lincoln Co., NC. If true, this would indicate that Levi was Joseph 2's son. Levi was born 1780. The next census we have on Joseph 2 is 1830 Lincoln Co., NC, which lists only Widow Bookout (head of household) with 3 males b. 1800-1810, 1810-1815, 1820-1830. (The daughter was possibly married by then). In the 1840 Lincoln Co., NC census Sarah Bookout is listed as head of household with 1 female, b. 1825-1830. The DNA results of James Broc Bookout will be even more interesting now. He is g-s/o James Rodney, s/o Eldred Doyce, s/o David Roy, s/o James Lewis, s/o Elias, s/o David (md Eve) who we, as we had Arthur, William, to be s/o Joseph I2. Will James Broc Bookout's results show marker 35 (DYS #CDYb) = 40?
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10 March 2009 DANFORD ARTIE BOOKOUT All of Danford Artie Bookout's results are back. It is clear that Dan's most distantly known ancestor, Branson, was a different breed of Bookout from any that we have seen to date. Out of 37 markers there are 18 differences (GD = 18), which calculates out to be that in the last 24 generations there is only a % 0.02 chance that Branson has a common ancestor with Joseph Bookout 1. We don't have to give up the idea that Branson was the son of John Bookout and Zilpha Wright, only that he was the natural son of John. From this distance in time, for example, it is impossible to say that John Bookout was Zilpha's first husband. It is within the realm of possibility that John was Zilpha's 2nd marriage and that Branson became a Bookout from Zilpha's former marrige. If this is not true, then something like this could be true. Branson was born on Randolph County, North Carolina, the same place where Joseph Bookout 1 died and is buried. Branson's ancestry is all the more interesting for us to research, and we have more to go on now that we have his genetic Y-DNA results. Dan's Matches will be watched closely on his FTDNA personal pages and on ysearch.org.
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25 February 2009 BRUSHING YOUR CHEEKS Rod Bookout, whose sister was Sondra Pettit (b 1940, d 2002 both in MS, and who made many Bookout contributions) wrote, "I would like to have DNA testing done on my grandson, he is three now, but i hope to interest him in his ancestors before i am gone." Rod thinks his grandson will remember. Three-year-old James Broc Bookout said after his test, "Daddy makes me brush my teeth, grandaddy makes me brush my cheeks!"
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3 February 2009 WILLIAM MARION BOOKOUT William Marion Bookout's DNA test results are back and at all 37 markers match exactly the genetic profile of Joseph 1 as it has been established by Y-DNA testing. Thomas Lafeyette Bookout, from whom William Marion Bookout descends, and Thomas Lafeyetter's' brother James Henry Bookout, from whom Ged Gentry Bookout descend, thus have a common ancestor, John Williamson Bookout, who was also predicted by their paper trail. Jed Gentry Bookout and William Marion Bookout are an exact match at all 37 places on their 37 Y-DNA markers. Their Genetic Distance = 0. (Marvin Russell Bookout's Y-DNA results also are a 37/37 match with Jed and William and fit Joseph 1's genetic profile exactly.) John Williamson's father, Levi, and Levi's father Joseph 2 now by both Jed's, and William's tests, are seen to be in a direct line to and through Joseph 1. (1) Stephen Thaddeus (Steve Gibb's grandfather) and his brother (2) Hubert Bookout, both half-brothers of (3) James Henry Bookout and (4) Thomas Lafeyette Bookout, all four had John Williamson Bookout as their common ancestor. Stephen Gibbs, who is in the Bookout line through his mother Evelyn Bookout (daughter of Stephen Thaddeus Bookout) won last December 2008's Contest with the Bookout story his mother used to tell: Stephen's father Gibbs used to frequent the library where Evelyn was studying to "check a Bookout." (It's not an exaggeration to say that Stephen's existence is the result of the favorable outcome of these checks). Stephen's children do not inculde boys, so has a proxy to take his test. William Marion Bookout filled the bill exactly. Bill's son Mark played contact man for his father Bill. Mak, Bill, and Frank Bookout have been Bookout researchers for many years. Hubert Bookout, above, an early 20th Century Bookout researcher was hard put to secure Levi in his line of Bookouts. He would be very pleased to learn that Y-DNA testing has shown that Levi Bookout was a natural link in his line.
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28 JANUARY 2009 UPDATES
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Steven James Bookout's results were originally thought to indicate a unique Bookout line. We now know that Randie Russell Bookout's 37 markers match Steven James Bookout's 37 markers exactly. Joseph Bookout who married Mary "Polly" Oversteet at the present time appears to be their common ancestor. The test results of John Rogers Bookout is expected to shed more light on this line of Bookouts.
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HAPLOGROUPS and HAPLOTYPES Just remember that haplotypes are what get tested in your Y-DNA tests. Members can see their haplotypes when they go to "DYS Values" on their FTDNA personal pages. These are relatively fast moving markers (STR's) that make it possible in a genealogical time frame to tell one family from another. Haplogroups are defined by mutations (SNP's) on the Y chromosome. These SNP mutations indicate the branching of the human family tree that can be as old as tens or hundreds of thousands of years old. SNPs define haplotrees (and haplogroups). They are mutations at a single place in a strand of DNA that occur only once in all of human evolution. STRs define haplotypes. They are the numerical number of times a short strand of DNA at a certain place (locus) repeats itself. Relative to SNPs they are fast moving. They are useful in determining family groups in a genealogical time frame. To see your place on the human family tree (your Haplogroup) click "Haplotree" on your first FTDNA personal page. Members can go to Haplotree on their personal pages and see at the upper right hand corner of the human family tree their Haplogroup as R1b1b2 Shorhand: R-M269. Look at the second page of your Haplotree. Look down on the right in the branching for M269 = R1b1b2. There is a Deep Clade ("Remote Branch") test which further refines one's Haplogroup beyond what you see on the upper right of your Haplotree page. I ordered the Deep Clade analysis of my DNA sample. My Haplogroup was refined and confirmed to be "R1b1b2a1b5, Shorthand M222 +," a refinement and 12 lines down from R1b1b2 = M269. We can now infer that M222 is also the Haplogroup with all members who have my haplotype; Marvin David Bookout, Jed Gentry Bookout, and Marvin Russell Bookout. The mutation (SNP M222) is usually believed to have occurred about 2000 years ago. Those who have it share a common ancestor who lived around 2000 YBP or 0 A.D. Randie Russell Bookout has ordered a FTDNA Deep Clade test. Randie's resusts will apply also to Stephen James Bookout and everyone in their lines back to their common ancestor. Haplogroup SNP's can be extrapolated to indicate the time and the geographical area of the branching of the human family tree. This sounds technical, and it is. But it is well worth the effort to try to understand, since it implies the immense journey of human kind from a brave, little band out of Africa, branching out all over the word "to be fruitful and multiply, to replenish the earth and subdue it."
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YSEARCH.ORG Ysearch.org is a place maintained by FTDNA where people from all over the world, tested by companies other than FTDA, can upload their results for comparison by all. It is in this pond, Genealogy-dna experts go to ysearch.org to get the data for their hypotheses and conclusions.. So it is very important that all of our Bookout data is uploaded coherently, systematically, and accurately to ysearch.org. In setting up accounts for our Bookout's on ysearch, those who have the same haplotype as Henry Wade Bookout, we know have the same haplogroup as Henry Wade Bookout (FTDNA confirmed (M222 + ). Therefore on ysearch, the pop-up window for haplogroup is now set the same as for Henry Wade Bookout, at R1b1b2a1b5 = M222, for Marvin David Bookout, Jed Gentry Bookout, Marvin Russell Bookout, and William Marion Bookout.
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MARVIN RUSSELL BOOKOUT Marvin Russell Bookout's results are back and indicate direct parental d
escent from Joseph 1 Bookout but do not indicate which son of Joseph 1 he descended from. ____________________ NEW TESTS Three tests were ordered 23-25 January 2009 for Bookouts all thought to descend from Marmaduke: (1) Jack(ie) Winford Bookout's Jacob "Jake" Alexander's parentage should be clarified. (2) William Gipson Bookout's results may cement the parentage of Marmaduke M.D., age 25, who appears in another household in the 1850 Arkansas census. (3) Ben Hill Bookout has a solid paper trail back to Charles L. Bookout, who is the common ancestor of himself and Henry Wade Bookut. Charles L. Bookout was a son of Marmaduke and an ideal "node" for testing to help determine when and in what generation Marmaduke's marker occurred (Locus CDYb mutated from 39 to 40). The priority of an attempt to find Marmaduke's marker in a systematic way over the same effort for John (Locus DYS 447 mutated from 25 to 24 ) arose from the the assumption that better knowledge of Marmaduke's line could help resolve the ambiguity of Marvin Russell's results.
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DANFORD ARTIE BOOKOUT Dan is 10th Bookout to sign up for testing. Dan's line is >Artie Clarence > James Dorthan >Simeon Ellis >William Gene Branson ?>John > Joseph 1. If it turns out that Branson is the s/o John, s/o Joseph 1, Branson would be the brother of Wright Bookout. His kit was sent to him 29 Dec 2008. Welcom, Dan, to the Bookout Surname Project! JED GENTRY BOOKOUT Jed Gentry Bookout's 12, 25, and 37 marker test results are back and show that there is a 99% probability that he has a recent common ancestor with Marvin David Bookout (>John, s/o Jospeh 1) and Henry Wade Bookout (>Marmaduke, s/o Joseph 1). These test prove genetically that the paper trail we have showing Jed Gentry Bookout as a descendant of Joseph 2, s/o Joseph 1 is solid. Jed's pedigree is as follows: Jed Gentry Bookout Pedigree Meg Gentry Bookout [bookoutATqnet.com] Thomas William, b 10 Sep 1887, Parker Co TX, m 4 Jimmie Lillian Adams James Henry, b 7 Mar 1842, McMinn Co TN, m 2 Elizabeth Clifton John Willliamson, b 20 Sep 1815, Lincoln Co NC, Cecelia Massingale Levi, b 1780, NC, Nancy Swaringame Joseph 2, b c 1752, NC or VA, m Sarah ? Joseph 1, b c 1700,birthplace ?, m ? Jed is an exact match with Marvin David Bookout at 12 markers, an exact match with Henry Wade Bookout and a genetic distance of 1 with Marvin David Bookout at 25 markers, and at 37 markers a genetic distance of 1 with Marvin David Bookout and Henry Wade Bookout. Joseph Bookout 2 is now proven genetically to be the brother of John and Marmaduke, all brothers, most probably with Joseph 1 as their most recent common ancestor.
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CONTEST ENTRIES
(1) I was a runner throughout my childhood (went to track on a college scholarship)* and our Bookout family name was listed in Runners World magazine back in the early 1980's as one of the top 'runner' names ... you might remember when to go fast you "bookout". [vb "to book out"; to go fast; cf. peel out] PS: Submitter notes, "Earned my undergraduate degree . . . in 1986 and still hold the 3000m record and am in the top 10 for several other events. Loved those times ..." - - How's that for "booking out!"
*sic. Scholarship to Track College, eh? Read: "Went to college on a track scholarship." Note: entry submitted at 1:26:42 AM!
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(2) We used to get several phone calls wanting to know if we had a particular book.? They thought we were a library.
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(3) When asked where our name comes from, I always respond: "Well you see, we were all pretty much farmers in the old days and we got our name from the chickens." CHICKENS?! they ask rather incredulously. "Yeah. You know like: Buck-buck-buckoUUUUT!" I freely admit that my rendition of a chicken pluckin' [*] ain't really pretty........ _______________________________________ *Ed. maybe the submitter meant "clucki' " for "pluckin' "; but who knows? submitter may have chanted "Buck-buck-buckoUUUUT" while "pluckin' " chickens. Either way, it's "really pretty.
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4) " LOOKOUT for BOOKOUT " ************************************************************** (5a) When I was in 1st grade at Lawarence Elementary, Wichita, KS, the school librarian was named "Stella Storey." Of course the students called her Miss Tella Story. She was an old maid, but used to say that she was waiting for my baby brother to grow up, so she could be "Tella Storey Bookout." (5b) In the same vien, my name is pronounced Gina and I was usually called Jene, pronounced Gene. In my early teen years I had to tolerate the giggles when some oh, so clever boy would yell Hi Jene. (say that out loud, you'll get it.) I was always mortified when one particular jokestar asked another boy, "Are you taking Hi Jene Book...out?" Later on, if I refused a second date with any boy, my father used to say that the boy had failed the Hi Jene test.
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6) Though I was not born a Bookout, I have been married to one for over 30 years. When we were expecting our first child, the doctor suspected it might be twins. The nurse quipped "well, if it is twins, you could call them Check-a and Take-a." Luckily, it was a singleton (grin) [a boy!]
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(7) In the 1950's during the Korean War the South Korean soldiers became noted for fading away when they were attacked by the North Korean soldiers. The U. S. soldiers often said during a battle that the South Koreans had bugged out or were bugging out. When the outfit that I was in arrived in Korea it didn't take too long for us to become familiar with these terms. You can imagine that my name presented many possibilities. Whenever I had any responsibility that required contact with the others in my outfit I was jokingly told to bugout Bookout. It wasn't long before my name became bugout in that outfit. Needless to say, I finally accepted the good natured ribbing and answered to bugout. Therefore bugout is my entry.
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(8) My mom . . . told this story: When my father was courting her at college . . . , his friends would tease him when he would go to study with her. They would say "Hey . . . , are you going to the library to check a Bookout?".
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(9) A Little Laugh* Little Barton, Florida derisively referred to its big sister as "Cracker Atlanta" where, on the birth of John James, Jr. in 1902, there was - - Little Barton, FL noted in the manner of a literary announcement - - "a new book out" named "John, Jr." "Barton, Fla. 'Cracker Atlanta has a citizen named John Bookout.' When John, Jr., made his appearance, the local papers headed the item - - 'A new book out.' " - - 'Talks About Town,' "The Atlanta [Cracker] Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. 14 Aug 1903.
*The submitter wishes to remain anonymous. Although the entry concerns my grandfather, John James Bookout, and a newspaper exchange bearing on the birth of his son, John James Bookout, Jr., I am not the submitter. Should the anonymous submitter happen to win, his prize would be to defer to the runner up or to break a tie in the runners up. So, this understood, I post #9 to the Bookout Surname Web page Contest. Henry Bookout
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(10) My mother was a Bookout and I've heard the name all my life but have never heard anyone make a comment about the name, so these stories were fun. The closest I got was when I once told someone I researched Bookout they started laughing and laughing. I just looked at them and they apologized and said that was the funniest name they had ever heard.
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PROJECT PARTICIPANTS Project participants have been assigned Subgroups Marmaduke, Joseph 2, Charles, and John (although not in this order of birth of the 4 sons of J 1). Jed Gentry Bookout's 12 marker test has a target pending date of 12/12 and his 25 & 37 marker tests are pending on 12/26. So it has been a long wait for Jed. His results are especially important to the whole Project because they will establish our 4th Subgroup, Joseph 2, s/o J 1. Maura's Dad's 37 marker results are complete with a G(enetic) D(istance) of 2 from Henry's predicting a 99% probability of a common ancestor with Henry Bookout. Marvin David Bookout established our Subgroup John. We still need to figure out Steve's contradictory results. His familial descent is set firmly in the line of the Subgroup, Charles As of, 12 Nov 2008, a testing kit has been mailed to Bobby Wayne Bookout. Welcome, Wayne, to the Bookout Surname Project. When Wayne's results are in he will also be in the Subgroup Charles Marvin Russell Bookout has also ordered a test kit. His line is mysterious ending with a Marma D. Bookout, about whom very little of substance is known. (He may be a s/o Jesse?) His Marma D., of course, almost certainly places him in the Subgroup Marmaduke. Marvin Russell, welcome to our Project. Randie Russell Bookout has joined the Bookout Surname Project. His kit will be mailed to him on Monday, 17 November. When Randie"s results are in it will be the first time that we can compare two lines that diverge far back from Charles, s/o Joseph 1: Randie from Charles H. and Steve from James, brothers, both sons of Joseph and Mary "Polly" Overstreet ( < Charles < Joseph 1). Welcome Randie Russell Bookout to the Bookout Surname Project!
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Shirley J. Evans
August 18, 1937
January 13, 2010
Shirley J. Evans was the daughter of Gains H. Bookout. Very few people, if any, have contributed more to our knowledge of Bookouts than Shirley J. Evans. Her proximity in Woodbridge, Virginia, later in Stafford, to the National Archives, gave her ready access to primary documents of the Bookout family. From about 1995 until her death at 72, Mrs. Evans, with Cynthia Dickinson and information contributed by others, compiled an Internet record which is--at least as far as Bookout genealogy is concerned--Mrs. Evans' greatest monument. The record of Bookouts on RootsWeb is probably the most comprehensive account of Bookout genealogy that has ever been assembled. So far as this record suggests a paper trail, it is a necessary compliment to our Y-DNA. The following link to Internet Bookouts can be found on RootsWeb-World Connect:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=cmd&I11.x=0&I11.y=0
PLEASE DONATE TO THE GENERAL FUND There is an urgent need for donations to the General Fund if we are going to continue to attract large numbers of gentlemen Bookouts to the Surname Project. Think about this, please, and do what you can.