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Description
Welcome, researchers of all Doherty variant surnames. We invite you to become a participant in the Doherty Surname DNA Project. We hope you will find in this project a new link to your respective family.
OUR CONTINUING GOAL -- to break through brick walls in our research and ultimately discover the origins of our ancestors and relationships with others bearing the Doherty (and variants) surname.
This DNA Study should help us achieve that goal as we identify others who are related and determine times, places and names for further research.
Through this process we hope to prove or disprove lineage theories and the oral histories of our ancestors and support and validate our interpretation of traditional historical data.
We actively urge those of you named Doherty, Dougherty and all variations thereof to participate in this DNA study. McDevitts (any spelling variation) are welcome to join the Doherty Surname group since they may be descendants of David O'Dochartaigh who was once chief of the O'Dochartaigh Clann.
Requirements
A Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname. They are of the most interest in cultures where surnames are passed on from father to son like the Y-Chromosome. This project is for males taking a Y-Chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) test. Thus, the individual who tests must be a male who wants to check his direct paternal line (father's father's father's...) with a Y-DNA12, Y-DNA37, Y-DNA67, or Y-DNA111 test and who has one of the surnames listed for the project. Females do not carry their father's Y-DNA. Females who would like to check their father's direct paternal line can have a male relative with his surname order a Y-DNA test. Females can also order an mtDNA test for themselves such as the mtDNAPlus test or the mtFullSequence test and participate in an mtDNA project. Both men and women may take our autosomal Family Finder test to discover recent relationships across all family lines.
Surnames In This Project
Darity, Daugherty, Daughety, Daughtrey, Daughtry, Dehority, Dochartaigh, Docherty, Dochery, Dockerty, Dockery, Dogherty, Doherty, Doriety, Dority, Dorrity, Dougherty, McDade, McDaid, McDavid, McDavitt, McDevitt, McKevitt, O'Dochartaigh, O'Dogherty, O'Doherty