Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 Hello Mumma researchers, cousins, family and friends - [If you don't care to receive future Bulletins of this type, please send me a message and I will remove you from this distribution list. These messages are sent out on a random basis when I feel there is something useful to communicate to everyone] READABILITY To make sure this Bulletin is readable by the maximum number of different computer systems, it is transmitted in plain text, without embedded formatting. This message was composed in 10 point monospaced Courier font. Any necessary indenting, centering and columns was done with spaces, not tabs. It is currently being sent to approximately 580 addresses as "blind carbon copies". That is why your name does not appear on the address line. DATABASE CHANGES A new database was uploaded to the web site on November 18th, 2000 and it now includes 45,476 individuals/descendants. Some of the additions, changes and corrections were: o Corrections and additions have been made to the Fulton County Mumma families. Most of the data was supplied by Mike Horton and Ron Rose. These descendants have been assigned the numbers of U23, U24 and U25. o Added numerous descendants of John Mumma who appeared in East/West Hanover Township of Dauphin County. I visited this area and many of his descendants during a recent trip I made to Dauphin and Lancaster Counties. o Many other additions and corrections were supplied by many people, too numerous to mention individually. I beg your indulgence if your name is not mentioned. If you submitted changes, revisions or additions and they do not appear in this update or are incorrect, please let me know and I will attempt to correct the problem. A few additions were discovered when sorting my e-mail today and they are not in this update. I will post a new updated database in a week or so. All of the people in the Internet database are contained within the various "Mumma Trees" as follows. If any of you can be of assistance linking the various trees together, your help would be appreciated. TREE INFORMATION Indiv's Desc's REF# Top Person in a particular tree + notes ------- ------ ---- --------------------------------------- 35449 22809 2 Leonard /Mumma/ b. bet 1690-1700 (1732 immigrant) 3707 2432 1 Jacob /Mumma/ b. 1685-1690 (1731 immigrant) 1237 825 U21 Jacob /Muma/ b. abt. 1750 (Canadian Mumas) 1131 747 4 Peter /Mumma/ b. ABT. 1721 (1748 immigrant) 888 611 U7 David /Muma/ b. ABT. 1760 (Mewmaw spelling) * * U8 Christian /Mumma/ b. 29 Aug 1791 (Clark Co., OH) 525 358 U28 John /Mumma/ b. 1790 (m. Catharine Ament) 509 308 U15 Frederick /Moomau/ b. 1 Apr 1796 (Moomau family) 460 291 U30 Frederick /Mumma/ b. ABT 1770 305 199 U23 Jacob /Mumma/ b. 1811 (Fulton Co. PA Mummas) 303 202 U33 George /Moomey/ b. abt. 1750 (Moomey family) 282 181 E1-K1 Wilhelm /Momma/ (European Mommas & Kettenis families) 187 132 U32 John Haup /Moma/ b. Aug 1791 (Augusta, VA) 155 97 U24 George W. /Mumma/ b. 1832 (Fulton County Mummas) 122 85 E2 Leonhard /Momma/ b. 1580 (European Mommas) 54 30 U27 John /Mumma/ (Germantown, Ohio family) 48 24 U22 John /Mumaw/ b. ABT. 1787 (Luzerne Co., PA) 42 22 U36 Barbara /Mumma/ b. Sep 27, 1768 (m. Henry Strickler) 29 16 U25 James B. /Mumma/ b. 1839 (Fulton County family) 20 12 U33 Jeremiah /Mummah/ b. ABT 1830 (possibly York Co., PA) 10 5 U31 Christian /Mumma/ (Baltimore, MD) 10 5 U37 Thomas Burr /Mumma/ b. ~ 1890 in Missouri 2 0 - A /.Hog/ b. 1 Jan 1900 (my test individual) 1 0 3 Johan Lorentz Momma, d. 1752 (1747 immigrant) ----- ----- 45476 29291 * because of a cousin marriage between branches, all of Christian Mumma's descendants are included with the totals for Leonard Mumma. SURNAME FREQUENCY IN THE DATABASE Mumma[2639], Moomaw[1868], Mumaw[1006], Muma[344], Mumau[319], Momma[232], Moomau[177], Mummau[169], Moomey[153], Mumaugh[119], Mummah[110], Mewmaw[52], Moma[49], Mumah[40], Mummaw[17], Mooma[7], Mommal[1] MUMMA SURNAME DNA PROJECT As many of you know, we have received the exciting results from the MUMMA Surname DNA project. All of the results of the 28 participants of the first phase of the project have been received. The results completely met or exceeded my expectations. All of my defined goals were achieved and I feel we have one of the best, privately funded projects that has been conducted to date. For this I am extremely proud. I am receiving thousands of hits on the web site as other people come to read about what the Mumma family has accomplished as they try to set up their own surname projects. As usual, the MUMMAs are on the leading edge of technology, as it should be!!!! With that being said, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the MUMMA (and alternate spellings) men who participated. Without their assistance and commitment, both biological, financial and moral, this project would not have happened. I owe them a great debt of gratitude and I really appreciate their faith in me to coordinate and manage this Mumma family project. At a later time, I will be posting the specific, detailed results on the web site at http://www.mumma.org/DNA.htm, but I would like to present a summary and status to all of you. The results were very clear and unambiguous which is most unusual for an initial study of this type. For this project, measurements were made at 12 specific locus points on the Y-chromosome. These loci are typically called markers and a particular value is recorded for each marker. This is what we learned. 1) A well defined MUMMA "fingerprint" or haplotype, as the scientists call it, was identified for our family. 13 out of the 28 participants exhibited this "fingerprint" exactly, 12 identical marker readings out of 12. From this we can clearly conclude with good confidence that all of these men share a common "Mumma" ancestor. 2) Participants from the immigrant, Jacob as well as participants from the immigrant, Leonard, also shared this same exact "fingerprint". Leonard's line contained both the Moomaw spelling of the surname as well as the classic Mumma spelling. From this we can conclude that both Jacob and Leonard Mumma shared a common ancestor. Unfortunately, the precision of the present technique precludes us from ascertaining whether they were brothers, but at least we know they descend from the same tree at some point in their ancestry. I believe this fact ends some arguments as to whether or not a common ancestry existed between these two men. 3) Of great importance was the results from the two Momma men from Germany. Their results clearly showed a perfect match between each other and with the standard MUMMA fingerprint, 12 markers out of 12. Wow! This was convincing evidence that the American MUMMA families descend from the MOMMA families of Germany. Ambiguous and non-existant civil records in Germany have prevented us from drawing this conclusion in the past. Thus I say "Willkommen" to our German cousins! Now in addition to considering them to be my good friends, they are my (our) relatives and I greet them with open arms. 4) We also had representatives from the Muma families of Canada and they too showed the standard MUMMA fingerprint. Many people have suggested that a link between the immigrant Mumma families and Canadian Muma families did not exist, but again these results have proved otherwise. Several of the Canadian Mumas also matched 12 for 12. Again, I say welcome to our Canadian brothers to the North. These results now allows the Canadian Muma researchers to narrow their focus on several of the early Mumma immigrants. There are lots of missing twigs and branches on the early MUMMA trees. 5) We had one representative from the MOOMAU family which first appeared in West Virginia in the early 1800s. This gentleman matched the MUMMA fingerprint 12 for 12 so again I say, welcome to the family. What has always intrigued me about this family is I first met them when I arrived in Livermore in 1957 as a fresh young graduate from the University of California at Riverside. As I drove into town, my car began to falter and I pulled into the first gas station. And who to my surprise should wait on me but a young man by the name of John Moomau. It was a bit of a shock when we introduced ourselves. For many years, we tended to scoff at the idea that we might be directly related with such differently spelled surnames. So now, not only do I consider John Moomau to be a good friend, but I can also claim him to be my cousin! 6) Two other gentlemen participated who descend from Christian Mumma (b. 1791) and migrated very early to Clark County Ohio. One of the men uses the MUMMA spelling while the other uses the MUMA spelling. In this case, both men matched each other perfectly, but only matched the MUMMA fingerprint 11 out of 12 readings. One reading was different by one digit. This is not unusual to observe "mutations" or small reading differences in groups and is actually expected. In fact, if these mutations or changes didn't occur on a slow, but regular basis, all men would show the same exact DNA fingerprint as "Adam". Thus in this case, we now have a nice "modified" fingerprint that we can identify with the descendants of Christian Mumma. 7) Within the results for several of the participants who descended from Jacob and Leonard, small, one step mutations were observed and they were consistent with the mutation of their close cousins. Hence, we can conclude that they too are MUMMA descendants, but exhibit a slightly modified fingerprint. I hope and expect to use these mutations to help isolate and identify specific branches. Frankly, this might prove to be the most powerful result of all these tests. And finally, we had 4 men who did not match the MUMMA fingerprint sufficiently close to be able to claim common ancestry. In all cases, the closest match they had was 9 out of 12 markers and this is too many mutations to claim a common MUMMA in the recent past. 8) One of these participants uses the MUMME surname and has a well documented pedigree reaching back into Northern Germany. It had been suggested by many people that this family might share a common ancestor with the MUMMA family. The DNA results proved otherwise and to this branch we bid "goodbye". 9) Also, I had a participant from a small group of MUMMAs who live in the small Balkan country of Estonia. While I had little confidence that we shared a common ancestor, I thought it was important to verify the question with DNA analysis. After all, this is the only country in Europe where you can find people who use the MUMMA spelling! The results confirmed that the Estonian MUMMAs and the American MUMMAs do not share a common ancestor and in fact, his results showed the biggest difference. He only matched 3 out of 12 markers. 10) One man with the MOOMEY surname participated in the study. It has been suggested that this family quite likely descended from the MOOMAW branch, but the results proved otherwise for this particular MOOMEY branch. His results showed a match of only 8 out of 12 markers and one varied by 2 digits. What we can't clearly conclude, however, is whether or not the Moomey family shares a common ancestor with the Mumma family for several reasons. This person could have had an adoption or an illegitimacy somewhere up the male MOOMEY side of his ancestral tree. In addition, we do not have a complete pedigree about his Moomey ancestors. Apparently he descends from a John Moomey, but it is not certain if this John is the some of George Moomey b. 1782 whose family appeared in Findley, Ohio in the early 1800's. This family was from Pickaway Co., OH. Therefore, all I can conclude from the results of this participant is that "he" does not share a common MUMMA ancestor. Additional testing of other MOOMEY men known to descend from George MOOMEY will need to be tested before definitive conclusions can be drawn about this family. 11) And last, we did have one case in which the participant believed that he was a MUMMA descendant, uses the MUMMA surname, but the results clearly showed that he does not share a MUMMA Y-chromosome and thus is not a Mumma descendant. He only matched 8 out of 12 of the MUMMA fingerprint markers. Results from his 4th cousin matched the MUMMA fingerprint exactly, thus providing ample evidence that his was a case of non-paternity, possibly due to an adoption or an illegitimacy somewhere between his father and their common ancestor, his GGGGrandfather. This was quite disturbing to him and he has chosen not to pursue further testing to isolate and determine at what generation the not-paternity occurred. This showed that a person should not participate in a study of this type if you are not willing to face an answer like this that you did not want to hear. That concludes a summary of the results obtained from the first phase of this MUMMA Surname DNA study. The results have been very exciting and revealing which will allow MUMMA researchers to focus their areas of investigation, especially those who are trying to link their branches to one of the well identified Mumma immigrant branches. The results that the Momma family of Germany and the Mumma family of America share a common ancestor was fantastic. I can hardly wait to do additional testing with more German Mommas with the objective of trying to narrow and identify where the two families share a common ancestor. In order to do this, we will need to increase the number of markers that are measured so that we can find one that shows a variation between the two families. This study was also missing several key participants from other "unidentified" family trees and even from the immigrant, Peter Mumma who arrived in America in 1748. One goal will be to include representatives from these groups in the next phase. If you know other men with the MUMMA (or alternate spelling) surname who would like to participate in further phases of testing, please have them contact me. So in conclusion, of the 45,476 people listed in the MUMMA database, we have shown that 41,306 are linked together with a common MOMMA/MUMMA ancestor. Wow! That is powerful stuff and I think you can see why I am excited about the new tool that is available to genealogists. While it won't replace traditional bible, religious and civil records, it does help guide future areas of research and eliminate unproductive paths.