Cumberland Gap-mtDNA | 7598 | This project is for mitochondrial DNA only. You inherit your mitochondrial DNA from your mother, and she from her mother, so this project focuses only on the maternal lines of the Cumberland Gap area only. If your yline (paternal line) DNA is from the Cumberland Gap, please join the Cumberland Gap Yline project.
The focus of this project is to reconnect the various families whose ancestors settled in the counties surrounding the Cumberland Gap. Please join if either your direct female maternal ancestoral line (your mother, her mother, her mother, up the tree) is associated with Claiborne, Hancock and Hawkins Co., in Tn., Lee, Russell or Scott Counties in Virginia, or Bell or Harlan Counties in Kentucky.
Male lines are relatively easy to track as the last names don't change. However, we lose so many females lines due to marriages and last name changes. They are much more difficult to identify, especially when combined with the lack of traditional genealogical records.
Therefore, the special focus of this project is to connect our female ancestors through their mitochondrial DNA. |
Project: Cumberland Gap-mtDNA Members: 7598 This project is for mitochondrial DNA only. You inherit your mitochondrial DNA from your mother, and she from her mother, so this project focuses only on the maternal lines of the Cumberland Gap area only. If your yline (paternal line) DNA is from the Cumberland Gap, please join the Cumberland Gap Yline project.
The focus of this project is to reconnect the various families whose ancestors settled in the counties surrounding the Cumberland Gap. Please join if either your direct female maternal ancestoral line (your mother, her mother, her mother, up the tree) is associated with Claiborne, Hancock and Hawkins Co., in Tn., Lee, Russell or Scott Counties in Virginia, or Bell or Harlan Counties in Kentucky.
Male lines are relatively easy to track as the last names don't change. However, we lose so many females lines due to marriages and last name changes. They are much more difficult to identify, especially when combined with the lack of traditional genealogical records.
Therefore, the special focus of this project is to connect our female ancestors through their mitochondrial DNA. |
CumberlandGap-YDNA | 9364 | This project is for Y-line (paternal) DNA only. A companion project, the Cumberland Gap mtdna project focuses on the mitochondrial (maternal) DNA lines.
View mtDNA here:
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Cumberlandgap%2Dmtdna/
The focus of this project is to connect the various familys whose ancestors settled in or passed through the counties surrounding the Cumberland Gap. Please join if either your direct male ancestoral line (paternal only - the line of your last name) is associated with Claiborne, Hancock and Hawkins Co., in Tn., Lee, Russell or Scott Counties in Virginia, or Bell or Harlan Counties in Kentucky.
Please join the Cumberland Gap DNA and Genealogy Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2409187872743532/ |
Project: CumberlandGap-YDNA Members: 9364 This project is for Y-line (paternal) DNA only. A companion project, the Cumberland Gap mtdna project focuses on the mitochondrial (maternal) DNA lines.
View mtDNA here:
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Cumberlandgap%2Dmtdna/
The focus of this project is to connect the various familys whose ancestors settled in or passed through the counties surrounding the Cumberland Gap. Please join if either your direct male ancestoral line (paternal only - the line of your last name) is associated with Claiborne, Hancock and Hawkins Co., in Tn., Lee, Russell or Scott Counties in Virginia, or Bell or Harlan Counties in Kentucky.
Please join the Cumberland Gap DNA and Genealogy Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2409187872743532/ |
Fugate | 42 | Welcome to the Fugate DNA Project!
Fugates of all spelling variations are encouraged to join this project.
In order to participate in this one-name study, you must provide the Fugate DNA Project with four pieces of information:
(1) The name of the person being tested.
(2) A family pedigree chart (or GEDCOM) showing your patrilineal lineage, if known.
(3) The name, date and place of birth of your oldest known direct paternal ancestor, along with any other pertinent information.
(4) Permission to publish your Y-DNA results along with the name, date and place of birth of your oldest known patrilineal ancestor (at minimum).
FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) offers three types of DNA testing: Y-DNA, mtDNA, and atDNA. For the purposes of this surname project, only Y-DNA will be considered. Y-DNA is passed from father to son via the Y-chromosome virtually unchanged, except for slight variations called mutations which occur (on average) ever so many generations. There are two types of mutations: STRs and SNPs. These variations act as a kind of "genetic signature" which when combined with a solid paper trail, can prove indispensable to genealogical research, as well as shedding light on your deep paternal ancestry. The most in depth Y-DNA test offered by FTDNA is the Big Y-500 which examines both STRs and SNPs. If you're not interested in the Big Y-500, then you can choose from among 12, 25, 37, 67, or 111 STR marker tests. The more STR markers you test, the more refined the results. The Y-DNA 37 test is the recommended minimum. You also have the option to upgrade your level of testing at anytime. Contact the admins for suggestions on which test is right for you!
While females cannot participate directly because they do not have Y-DNA, they can still help by encouraging their male FUGATE relatives (i.e. father, brother, uncle, cousin, etc.) to participate in this project and thereby trace their surname line.
If you have not yet purchased a DNA test kit or would like instructions on how to collect your DNA sample, please visit: https://www.familytreedna.com/dna-test-kit.aspx
If you would like additional information on the whole DNA process and how to interpret your results, please visit: https://www.familytreedna.com/understanding-dna.aspx
This project was founded in 2005 at FamilyTreeDNA. |
Project: Fugate Members: 42 Welcome to the Fugate DNA Project!
Fugates of all spelling variations are encouraged to join this project.
In order to participate in this one-name study, you must provide the Fugate DNA Project with four pieces of information:
(1) The name of the person being tested.
(2) A family pedigree chart (or GEDCOM) showing your patrilineal lineage, if known.
(3) The name, date and place of birth of your oldest known direct paternal ancestor, along with any other pertinent information.
(4) Permission to publish your Y-DNA results along with the name, date and place of birth of your oldest known patrilineal ancestor (at minimum).
FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) offers three types of DNA testing: Y-DNA, mtDNA, and atDNA. For the purposes of this surname project, only Y-DNA will be considered. Y-DNA is passed from father to son via the Y-chromosome virtually unchanged, except for slight variations called mutations which occur (on average) ever so many generations. There are two types of mutations: STRs and SNPs. These variations act as a kind of "genetic signature" which when combined with a solid paper trail, can prove indispensable to genealogical research, as well as shedding light on your deep paternal ancestry. The most in depth Y-DNA test offered by FTDNA is the Big Y-500 which examines both STRs and SNPs. If you're not interested in the Big Y-500, then you can choose from among 12, 25, 37, 67, or 111 STR marker tests. The more STR markers you test, the more refined the results. The Y-DNA 37 test is the recommended minimum. You also have the option to upgrade your level of testing at anytime. Contact the admins for suggestions on which test is right for you!
While females cannot participate directly because they do not have Y-DNA, they can still help by encouraging their male FUGATE relatives (i.e. father, brother, uncle, cousin, etc.) to participate in this project and thereby trace their surname line.
If you have not yet purchased a DNA test kit or would like instructions on how to collect your DNA sample, please visit: https://www.familytreedna.com/dna-test-kit.aspx
If you would like additional information on the whole DNA process and how to interpret your results, please visit: https://www.familytreedna.com/understanding-dna.aspx
This project was founded in 2005 at FamilyTreeDNA. |
HarlanCtyKY | 56 | For all lines coming from Harlan County area |
Project: HarlanCtyKY Members: 56 For all lines coming from Harlan County area |
Iowa DNA | 2495 | The Iowa DNA Project welcomes all of those with a connection to the State of Iowa. This project aims to learn more about the settlers of Iowa and to connect DNA cousins to surnames (or variants) in our family tree database. The Iowa DNA Project focuses primarily on Family Finder test results to connect known and prospective DNA cousins, and their collateral lines. Testing yDNA and mtDNA is also encouraged.
If you would like to join, you must have, or be willing to, test to at least Family Finder level with Family Tree DNA, or have transferred your results from another testing organization to Family Tree DNA.
To Join go to the public website link above and select Join. |
Project: Iowa DNA Members: 2495 The Iowa DNA Project welcomes all of those with a connection to the State of Iowa. This project aims to learn more about the settlers of Iowa and to connect DNA cousins to surnames (or variants) in our family tree database. The Iowa DNA Project focuses primarily on Family Finder test results to connect known and prospective DNA cousins, and their collateral lines. Testing yDNA and mtDNA is also encouraged.
If you would like to join, you must have, or be willing to, test to at least Family Finder level with Family Tree DNA, or have transferred your results from another testing organization to Family Tree DNA.
To Join go to the public website link above and select Join. |
Mountain District TN | 721 | This project is concerned with tracing the origins of the families that settled in the Mountain District of Middle Tennessee (West Middle TN), and such includes the following counties: Franklin, Warren, Marion, Bledsoe, White, Overton, Fentress and Jackson Counties.
History of the Mountain District:
http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/survdist.htm
"The 3rd District closed in 1827, and in that year, the Assembly created the “Mountain District.” This District was to superimpose over parts of older districts, mainly over the 3 rd District. It seems that the Mountain District became more of an administration district rather than a Surveyors’ District. The State needed to dispose of the surplus land on the Cumberland Plateau and to enter that land on the tax rolls. ---“The register of the land office...shall keep his office in the town of Sparta, in the county of White, and shall be denominated ‘the Register of the Mountain District. ’...”
Additionally; “...All land entered or hereafter to be entered in the counties of Franklin, Warren, Marion, Bledsoe, White, Overton, Fentress and Jackson, and the plats and certificates not returned to any other registers office in this State on or before the first day of January next shall be returned to the ‘register’s office of the mountain district,’ ....” 70 Note that parts or all of some of the above mentioned counties may fall into other older districts. There is no mention, and would have been no need of re-surveying the Mountain District. There is no extant map of the Mountain District. The 1827 bounds of the mentioned counties create the bounds of the Mountain District. TSLA has some litigation records involving land in this district." (TNGenNet)
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Project: Mountain District TN Members: 721 This project is concerned with tracing the origins of the families that settled in the Mountain District of Middle Tennessee (West Middle TN), and such includes the following counties: Franklin, Warren, Marion, Bledsoe, White, Overton, Fentress and Jackson Counties.
History of the Mountain District:
http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/survdist.htm
"The 3rd District closed in 1827, and in that year, the Assembly created the “Mountain District.” This District was to superimpose over parts of older districts, mainly over the 3 rd District. It seems that the Mountain District became more of an administration district rather than a Surveyors’ District. The State needed to dispose of the surplus land on the Cumberland Plateau and to enter that land on the tax rolls. ---“The register of the land office...shall keep his office in the town of Sparta, in the county of White, and shall be denominated ‘the Register of the Mountain District. ’...”
Additionally; “...All land entered or hereafter to be entered in the counties of Franklin, Warren, Marion, Bledsoe, White, Overton, Fentress and Jackson, and the plats and certificates not returned to any other registers office in this State on or before the first day of January next shall be returned to the ‘register’s office of the mountain district,’ ....” 70 Note that parts or all of some of the above mentioned counties may fall into other older districts. There is no mention, and would have been no need of re-surveying the Mountain District. There is no extant map of the Mountain District. The 1827 bounds of the mentioned counties create the bounds of the Mountain District. TSLA has some litigation records involving land in this district." (TNGenNet)
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