Donald Yates
Donald N. Yates (1950-) is an American genealogist, author, and Genetic Testing Laboratories investigator, who was born in Cedartown, Georgia, of Choctaw-Cherokee and Sephardic Jewish ancestry.[1] He holds a doctorate in classical studies with a major in Medieval Latin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote a dissertation on the literary and historical analysis of the twelfth-century Latin satiric masterpiece Ysengrimus. He has published articles and books in Native American studies and genealogy research, as well as manuscript studies, paleography, archives administration, cataloguing science and library history. After working in corporate communications for the pharmaceutical company Miles Laboratories (now Bayer Corporation), he taught public relations and communications at Georgia Southern University and several other schools.
In 2003, he founded the direct-to-consumer genetic testing and DNA profiling company DNA Consultants, where he is owner and principal scientific investigator[1]. With Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman, he co-authored a series of three historical monographs of the genealogy of American, Scottish, Welsh and English Jews, all published by scholarly monograph and reference book publisher McFarland & Co.. In 2012, the same publisher published Yates's Old World Roots of the Cherokee, with a forward by Richard Mack Bettis, the first academic book-length contribution to the subject of Cherokee origins since the 1970s. "Using a combination of DNA analysis, historical research and classical philology," according to the publisher's description, Old World Roots of the Cherokee, "uncovers the Jewish and Eastern Mediterranean ancestry of the Cherokee and reveals that they originally spoke Greek before adopting the Iroquoian language of their Haudenosaunee allies while the two nations dwelt together in the Ohio Valley." A review[2] in American Indian Culture and Research Journal remarked that it "provides the definitive evidence of relations between Jews, Greeks, Egyptians, and the Cherokee...engaging and useful," while two reviews by James L. Guthrie and Stephen C. Jett in Pre-Columbiana. A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts 5/2-4 and 6/1 (2014), pp. 242-44 paid special attention to the convergence of historical and genetic research.[3] Yates's Cherokee monograph has an audiobook version, narrated by Jack Chekijian in 2013, which includes correct pronunciations of Cherokee and other American Indian language-derived historical figures, exotic words and place-names.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hirschman, Elizabeth C.; Yates, Donald N. (Fall 2010). "Toward a Genetic Profile of Melungeons in Southern Appalachia". Appalachian Journal. Appalachian State University. 38/1: 92.
- ↑ Bardill, Jessica. "Review of Old World Roots of the Cherokee: How DNA, Ancient Alphabets and Religion Explain the Origins of America's Largest Indian Nation". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 7/4: 199–202.
- ↑ Guthrie, James L.; Jett, Stephen C. (2014). "Review of Donald N. Yates (2012), Old World Roots of the Cherokee: How DNA, Ancient Alphabets and Religion Explain the Origins of America's Largest Indian Nation". Pre-Columbiana. A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts. Early Sites Research Society. 5/2-4 and 6/1: 242–244. ISSN 1522-8495.
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