There's some exciting news to report: The PIKE DNA project experienced
another perfect 25-marker match in February. This is now our 15th
perfect 25-marker match, so some of the novelty of such matches
might be beginning to wane. But this time the match was between two
people who not only don't have any other matches in our project, but
they live on different continents and their common ancestor was to a third continent!
WOW!
As for the people involved, the first one to test was David Hilton Pike
(kit 98682) who lives in South Africa. David's ancestry goes back to a
William Pike who emigrated from the village of Keyworth in Nottinghamshire
in 1820. When David's test results came back from the lab in October,
he had no matches.
More recently, Jerry Pike (109431) from Maryland, USA got tested. The results
came back with the exciting news of a perfect match with all 25 of the markers that David had tested.
David and Jerry did not know each other prior to discovering that they
were a genetic match. Since then, they've been comparing their family
trees and have successfully determined just HOW it is that they
are related. When David's ancestor William left England in 1820 for
South Africa, William's brother John remained behind. As it happens,
Jerry had traced his Pike line backwards in time from the USA to Canada
and then to England, where the trail got stuck with a John Pike who had
lived in the village of Wilford in Nottinghamshire, but whose place of
origin was not known. This is where the pieces of the puzzle came
together: not only is Wilford a mere six miles from Keyworth, but
Jerry's John was David's William's younger brother! In other words,
They are 4th cousins (twice removed).
This new match has led to the creation of a new "group" on our Results page at
http://www.math.mun.ca/~dapike/family_history/pike/DNA/index.php?content=results.htmlSpecifically, it is "Group 4" where these results can be seen. In recognition of the creation
of this new group, the pushpin for the village of Keyworth in the map of
the UK shown on our Results page has been updated to show group number "4".
Anyone else researching a PIKE line should contact David Pike or Stu Pike at the above web page, if they have questions about DNA testing.
