B42—Elizabeth Benn
324 E Sharon Ave
Glendale, OH  45246

At the annual meeting, due to health conditions, Jack Childers resigned as President of CFA.  When he arrived at home, his physician told him to relax and enjoy himself--that he was in good shape!  Being a Childers/Childress, he is stubborn and relax is not in his vocabulary or life style!  We want Jack to do what the doctor tells him and what Cindy tells him and what is in his best interest.  We wish you the very best and thank you for everything.

Jack joined CFA in 1992 in Nashville and has worked hard to make the association productive and research oriented.  His many contributions include organizing and hosting several annual meetings, sharing his research skills, enabling many to find their "missing link", supporting the DNA project and this year, due to his time and effort, the CFA Web Site is a reality.

He cares about CFA. He wants it to grow and develop into an active force for good genealogical research. 

Autobiography (by Jack Childers):

First Meeting Nashville, TN Aug 14-16, 1992 at the Days Inn Convention Center.  I started school in Merchantville, New Jersey, where my parents were living. We had great times there, as we lived with my grandparents, William Benton and Ola Childers. This was during the great depression of the 1930's. The main reason we lived there was because of money. Nobody had any!  My cousins, Wayne and Scott Ashby, lived there also.  Wayne was my age and all we did was fight. Uncles Big Jack, Charles, and Allen also lived at home and I was just at the age where I was a big pest to them.  During the summers my mother would take me to live with the McCorkles (her family) in Virginia.  This was always one of the big times in my life as it meant going to the sawmill, riding the railroad lumber trains, seeing all my McCorkle cousins, and just having a good time.  Summers never lasted long enough! Childhood never lasts long enough! 

In New Jersey, my father operated a printing company in the basement of the house and I can remember the presses going clickity-clack until late at night.  Business was good, but getting paid was hard, so sometimes Benton would take my mother and I to different restaurants to eat so that he could deduct the bill from what the restaurants owed him (the Clarben Press).

About 1938 my parents sold the printing business and we packed up and left.  We visited William Benton and Ola Childers in Columbus, Ohio, where we spent several months, then on down to Florida. My father spent some time in the Panama City area looking into different ventures there, but he decided to go on down to Fort Lauderdale, where I entered the seventh grade.  The first year we lived near the beach and that was fun.  I was on the beach every day and playing in the bay.  Benton had a combination service station and restaurant where both he and my mother worked long hours (Jack & Rog Service Station).  After two years he sold this business and purchased the State Five and Ten Store on the Tamiami Trail in Miami.  This business was run down a bit.  However, by working hard my mother and dad were able to increase sales, buy a house, and get ahead a Little.  I completed the seventh and eighth grades in Fort Lauderdale and attended Shenandoah Jr. High School, Miami, for the ninth grade. (The war in Europe was getting hotter all the time, and we were keeping an eye on it).

I was very interested in the water since coming to Florida.  In Fort Lauderdale I had a rowboat and I would spend a considerable amount of time fishing and just boating around.  In Miami we lived about two miles from the bay and of course I had my bicycle and was able to spend a lot of time with a sailboat I owned in partnership with a neighborhood friend.  Later, I had a 16 foot boat with a one cylinder Delco Lightplant Engine in it.  It was not the fastest boat in the bay, but on one gallon of gasoline I could travel all day and still have a quarter of a tank left.  Also, like all the other Childers' boys, I had a paper route which made me a little money.

I completed the 10th grade at Miami Senior High School; however my parents thought I was getting a little wild so they packed me off to Fork Union Military Academy, Fork Union, Virginia, for the 11th grade.  Cousin Billy, Hunter McCorkle’s son, was there at the same time and we had a good year.  I returned home and started my 12th and final year of high school at Miami Senior High.  All my Miami friends were thinking of the war and we were afraid that we were going to miss it, so in Nov. 1944, my buddy, Kenneth Williams, and I enlisted in the U. S. Navy. After 10 weeks of "boot camp" at Bainbridge, Maryland, they sent me to Basic Engineering School at Gulfport, Miss. Kenneth went into the Navy Seabees upon completion of school, and I was assigned to the U. S. Tweedy DE 532, a Destroyer Escort. After two years of patrolling the Atlantic Ocean for enemy submarines, I had fulfilled my military obligation to the government and was honorably discharged and returned to civilian life.

After receiving my high school diploma, I went to the University of Miami for a year and half. My working career started with Dun and Bradstreet where I was a credit Investigator for several years, then a Deputy Sheriff for a year or so.  About this time the Korean War came along, and of course, since I was in the Naval Reserves, I was recalled to active duty.  I spent that summer at New Port, Rhode Island.  Then, when it started getting cold, I got transferred to San Diego, Calif. While spending a year there, I married my first wife, Elsie Rainey, a nurse from back east.  Upon my discharge from the Navy, we moved back to Florida where I got in the “shell” business, making shell jewelry and novelties for wholesale distribution.  I also started and operated the Biscayne Shell Jewelry Company in Miami for eight years.  Elsie and I got divorced two years later.

I then went to work for several manufacturers selling their products from Maine to Texas. In 1966 I met and married my second wife, Helen Lucinda Gaskin, and we opened a small retail store in Ocean City, Maryland.  She was very helpful in operating the store the first few years, but then having babies sort of kept her at home.  During this time and for the next twenty years we lived in Florida and the Florida Keys during the winters and Ocean City, Maryland during the summers. Later, in 1984, we moved to Fenwick Island, Delaware.  In 1988 I retired from selling on the road and devoted all my time to the retail stores which at one time included a total of five retail stores, one warehouse and one laundromat.  In 1990 we reduced to three stores, but doing over a million dollars in sales per year.

We discovered that I had a heart condition (Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy) in Feb 1991 and on the advice of my doctors, I’m taking life easier.  We sold the two stores in Ocean City, MD in late 1991 to Robert Auker, who had been my Ocean City manager for the past 15 years.  We kept the one store in Fenwick Island, Delaware, which our daughters Virginia and Jackie operate. They do all the day-to-day business of the corporation and Cindy and I just lend guidance with the major decisions.

Please don’t miss the chance to visit our very professional web site (www.childers-childress.com).  Jack Childers is doing a great job.  A web site is always a work-in-progress and Jack has been untiring in improving our web site.  You will find a complete explanation of the DNA Project, along with the following headings:  Association Information, Family Events, Family Information, a Bulletin Board, Bible Records, Gedcom Files, Web Links, News Letters, Individual Histories, and Membership information. 

Submitted by:  Jack & Cindy Childers, 708 Ocean Highway, RD 3 Box 480, Fenwick Island DE 19944-9345.  Phone 302-539-9366, FAX 302-539-1285, Email childers@dca.net, Toll Free 888-743-5524, Internet, www.seashellcity.com.

This is just a short note to let all the members of the Childers/Childress Family Association that we arrived home safely from Nashville on Sunday. I saw my doctor on Tuesday and he assured me that I have a few more years left.  I want to express my regrets to the members who elected me President last year that I was not able to fill out my term, however I will keep working for the Association as long as my health permits me to do so.  I had several reports that I wanted to present at the meeting, but was unable to give them. I left printed reports and I hope that everyone was able to pick up a copy. I wanted to give a complete up to date report about the Childers/Childress Family Association DNA Project as well as the Childers/Childress Family Association Web site.  www.childers-childress.com.

Today I would like to talk a little about the DNA Project and bring everyone up to date. I am enclosing as an attachment a chart with the results of all who have taken the test.

This attachment is in Microsoft Excel Format and can be opened using Microsoft Excel. I will be putting this chart on the web page (www.childers-childress.com) so if you have a problem opening the attachment you will be able to view the chart on the web page. I would also like to point out that the following are in the process of taking the test, but we have not received their results as yet:  James Andrew Childers, Parker Hampton Childers, James Robert Childress Jr., Patrick Childress, Mark Alan Childers, Rich Malcolm Childers, Mac Childears

Several members told me at the meeting that they were considering taking the DNA test.

At this time, we have the results for 23 and are waiting for another seven, making a total of 30, which from what I understand is a very good showing for a genealogical group.

I am going to put the “Explaining the DNA Spreadsheet” both as an attachment and in the body of the letter.

Explaining the DNA Spreadsheet

Learning about DNA is done a step at a time…it’s not too terribly complicated...but it sure looks complicated.

The web site at http://blairgenealogy.com/dna/dna101.html is considered the basics but it tends to create as many questions as it answers.  The spreadsheet is divided into 6 groups.  Each group contains the related parties.  Each group is unrelated to the other groups. 

Each test result is a set of 25 numbers... the value of the number is immaterial.  The test scores are only useful when comparing them to someone else's test score to see how similar the results are.

The rule of thumb is that on a 25 marker test, those who miss by MORE than 2 markers are most probably not related…3 mismatches may have some small (5-10%) chance of being related. With enough people taking the test, the laws of probability state that some will have 3 mismatches and are in fact related.

Geneticists talk in terms of probabilities.  There is always some small probability of error or that people are related who don't appear to be related...it can never be stated with 100% probability that two people aren't related...the probability however can get very small.  Geneticists are starting to do complicated analysis to measure the "genetic distance" between two people...so it is entirely possible to have more that 3 or more mismatches but with a mathematical adjustment from a complicated formula still be related. 

To confuse the issue not all markers mutate at the same rate.  Fast mutating markers are considered "hot spots" and are listed on the spreadsheet with black column headings, and a pink background. "Hotspots" are not as relevant as other markers for determining if people are related.  In Group Two is a Joseph W. A. Childress, for example, who misses by 4 markers from the other members of Group Two...but all the mismatches are at fast mutating "hot spots".  The President of Family Tree DNA feels that one should rely on the more stable markers to confirm a relationship and use the fast mutating "hot spots" only to separate lineages within a group.  So, as an example, Joseph W. A. Childress with 4 mismatching "hot spots" is judged primarily on his stable makers and is judged to be a Group Two Haplotype (DNA pattern).

The University of Arizona is studying the issue of hot spots and the entire field of interpreting DNA tests is still evolving.

When you get your test score, just compare your 25 numbers to others who have taken the test to see if you are a close match to anyone.

Gary Childress is the DNA Project director for Childers-Childress Family Association and if you have any question or wish to take part in the project please contact Gary at his Email address London2005@charter.net. 

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Group 1
8269	Daniel Ray Childress	#	#
	lyn440@attbi.com
	Ancestor David B Childress, b 1874, Madison Co, IA, Migrated MO>IA
8438	Bazz Childress	#	#
	bazzchildress.@qx.net
	Ancestor Pleasant Childress, b 1761, either Buckingham Co or Warren Co, NC, Migrated NC>VA>KY
8267	Clyde O Childress	#
	pikake3@aol.com
	Ancestor Robert W Childress, b c1790, VA? Migrated VA>NC
8270	Steve Childress	#
	kechildress@aol.com
	Ancestor Robert Childress b c1755-1765, Migrated VA>NC
8284	William (Bill) A Childress	#
	bchild1510@hotmail.com
	Ancestor Robert Childress Sr, b 1758, died in  Anderson Co, SC in 1799, migrated SC>GA>AL>MS>TX
8286	Bruce C Childress	#
	bruce@bcpipes.com
8287	Cody Childress	#
	xsplash@aol.com
	Ancestor: John William Childress, b 1820, migrated VA>WV>NC>GA
8291	Jack Childers	#
	childers@dca.net
	Mosby Childers Born 1759 Rev War Albemarle Co VA Move to WV then OH
8292	Indiana Jack Childers	#
	injack1@aol.com
	Ancestor: John Childers b c 1775 d 1826 migrated OH>IN
8295	Clayton Robert Childress	#
	gwhitloc@swva.net
	Ancestor Richard Childress b c1775 Pittsylvania Co VA migrated VA>WV children to Kanawha Co VA
8365	Robert E Childers	#
	bobfloch@adelphia.net
	Ancestor: Robert Childers
8268	Bradd M Childress	#	#	#
	dianac@teknett.com
8772	Benjamin Childers	#	#
	bevans@coutsfamily.com
	Mosby Childers Born 1759 Rev War Albemarle Co VA Move to WV then OH
8290	Larry Lee Childers	#
	Ln_childers@charter.net
	Ancestor Willey Childers b c1781 either SC or NC or VA All six children were
11851	Larry Wayne Childress	#
	rcc@the-dca.net
	Ancestor: David Childress b 1768 Spartanburg SC d 1850 Waverly Co TN
Group 2
9369	Joseph W A Childress	#	#	#	#
	wilkerson@cstone.net
	Ancestor: Dabney J Childress, Goochland Co VA b c1803
8288	Joseph Howard Childress, Dr	#
	tndrjay@earthlink.net
	Ancestor: John Childress b 1759 Albemarle Co VA Migrated VA>NC>TN
8289	Gary Michael Childress	#	#
	london2001@earthlink.net
	Ancestor John Childress, b 1759 Albemarle Co, VA Migrated VA>NC>TN
Group 3
8272	William Jr Gordon Childress	#
	bchildress10@comcast.net
	Ancestor: Bartholomew Gordon Childress b c1803 SC or VA Migrate SC or VA>SC>GA>FL>MS>AL
Group 4
8770	Billy Frank Childers	#
	jenice_cvbc@yahoo.com
	Ancestor Roy Childers b c1900 came from Little Rock AR
8771	Danny William Childers	#
	jenice_cvbc@yahoo.com
	Ancestor Roy Childers b c1900 came from Little Rock AR
Group 5
9368	Kenneth Nelson Childres	#
	jenice_cvbc@yahoo.com
	Ancestor Nathan Childers, Crawford County GA
Group 6
11385	James Lamar Childers	#
	wndachil@nts-online.net
	Ancestors: John B Childers, b 1803 VA/census Tallapoosa Co, AL 1850-60, father Wm Childers
No Results:  James Andrew Childers
No Results:  Parker Hampton Childers
No Results:  James Robert Childress, Jr
No Results:  Patrick Childress
No Results:  Mark Alan Childers
No Results:  Rich Malcolm Childers
Grey columns are "hot spots, i.e. fast mutating sites on the DNA

The meeting was called to order by Vice-President Robert Childers at 10 a.m.

Minutes of the 2002 Annual Meeting held in Williamsburg, VA were distributed, read, and approved.

Julia Childress, Treasurer, presented the financial report from 1 October 2002 - 31 August 2003

(11 months) as follows: