The DNA ‘nucleotides’ are shown by the letters A, T, G and C, one letter for each of the four possible DNA building blocks. They stand for the chemical names Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine. The test results show a series of A’s & T’s paired together and G’s & C’s paired. This sequence determines everything about us from our eye and hair color the way things taste to us. These genetic sequences of A&T and G&C have names and meanings that are the results of your test. Only a few of the tests available are discussed here and more are becoming available as the tests get better constantly.

  The genetic tests done for genealogy do not look at health history or genetic “fingerprinting or mapping” because people fear this information could be misused in the future. Once a report is generated the lab destroys the sample, another privacy step. Surname studies often protect your identity by testing only by a number held secret by the coordinator of the study, to further protect your genealogy information from being known by anyone besides the one trusted person and you. In this case not even the lab will know who you are. At this writing the tests cost from $89. to over $130. (usd).

Cyndi's List DNA genealogy resources, click here. --- 

SURNAME DNA PROJECTS, click here. 

Rushings come to America
   Our surname first appears in 1660's Virginia Records in the U.S. Other early Rushing families may have had a different spellings of our surname, such as Rushin and Rushen. Records commonly have these spellings but when I see a genealogy, the Rushing spelling has been adopted and their descendants have the more common spelling. 

Peter Rushen has a Web Site for the one name study of the surname Rushen - Rushin. Peter has compiled a web page of Christenings in Essex and Suffolk Counties in England where family structures that include the different spellings along with the Christian names Mathew, William, and John in the same family.
   William and John Rushing, according to history books were militiamen for Clare in the Hundred of Risbridge in the year 1638. Most likely they were sent to the West Indies which were part of the Virginia Charter at that time. Later in the 1650's there was a mass exodus from Barbados to the American mainland. To read about this story, click here. 
   Thank you Peter Rushen and John Rushing who have helped with this ongoing research.

In the U.S. Rushing families there have been traditions and rumors of American Indian blood in the family. Thanks to Genealogy Library .com and the TNGenWeb Project We have looked at the rolls and found some references to Rushings in both the Eastern U.S. Guion Miller Roll and also in the western U.S. Indian Territory (which later became the State of Oklahoma) Dawes Final Roll. 
To view this information click on the  roll name above. Information on how to order the original documents is linked on the pages. Please use the link on these pages to find other surnames with Native American ancestry. The TNGenWeb's excellent "Indian By Blood" pages have links to other rolls we have not yet researched. These pages are written by Jerry Wright Jordan who wrote the Cherokee by Blood books.

Great New Discussions

GenForum has added new pages, we now have the Rushing surname discussion and the new
Rushen discussion. Interestingly, the first post on the Rushen GenForum is about a James Rushen who vanishes from Barbados just before James Rushin mysteriously shows
up in New Kent County, VA. 
   Other new topics include the first Anson and Union Counties, NC Rushing postings by Ira B. Rushing. Ira has an extensive collection of abstracts and has taken the trouble to post them on the Web for our benefit. Check out his documents here and here.
   Ida Thomas islooking for connections to the Rushings of color from Anson and Union Counties, NC.

This new e-zine format will hopefully make it easier to
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