Welcome! <br><br> If you've been researching family lines within Cambria County, Pennsylvania, then you know how rich and diverse the genealogical mix is in this single county. This group is for anyone, and everyone, with DNA connections to Cambria County.<br><br> This group is accepting both Y-DNA & Family Finder results from any contributor who wishes to join our group. We are no longer supporting mtDNA only kits. My own primary Cambria lines, on my mother's side, are Weakland (Paternal) and Riley/Reilly (Maternal). Cambria County was formed in 1807, from parts of Huntingdon and Bedford Counties. Pre-1807 families from Huntingdon and Bedford are always welcome too. Families from surrounding counties are always welcome as well, please indicate when joining if you're from a neighboring county.

This project is to search for common ancestors of people with DNA matches to groups of my cousins. We will work with both autosomal DNA and Y-DNA. We will use Big Y testing and use shared SNPS to help define ancestral lines. In the future, we will look closer at mtDNA. If you are my cousin, you are invited to join the project. If you are a DNA match to one of my cousins, you are invited to join. At this time we are investigating possible connections with other families on several ancestral lines. These include the following groups of surnames: Dixon Drake Dugger Ellis Evans Landrum Minton Miller Pamplin Pettus Shelburne Akens/Akin Boggs Bogle Karlton Kelly Kidd Livingston/Livingstone Stark/Starke Pace Terrell Ayre Bretton Holling Vincent Vinson Whitley Johnston Salter Feist Huber Kramer Meyer Obert Spattgalsten Vollmer Wegmann Birnbaum Goeke Siedhoff Calhoun Craddock McKee McNeill Teel

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.

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/

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.

This Y-DNA Surname Project is for persons named Mabry, Mayberry, Maybury, Maberry, Mabrey and many others – we use the generic surname Maybury for convenience. Participants in the project must be male because only males have the Y chromosome where the family signature is found. We welcome participants with a variant of the Maybury surname in England and in the various countries they immigrated to, such as: Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. By combining the results of Y-DNA testing with conventional genealogical research, we believe that we have found the identity of a common ancestor of many Mayburys worldwide. We are also revealing new Maybury families with new Maybury DNA signatures that have emerged as the result of name changes, adoptions, etc.

This project is a geographic project and thus is open to all yDNA and mtDNA participants. In 1744 the Virginia General Assembly created Albemarle County by taking the northern portion of Goochland County (itself created in 1728 from Henrico county). Its original land area included today's counties of Amherst, Buckingham, Fluvanna, and Nelson, much of Appomattox and part of Campbell. This project will include the counties that were in this same area both before and after the creation of Albemarle county. Since this is a geographically oriented project, the kits will be grouped by SNP markers rather than surnames.