Major Project Goals:  Our “big” goals are to:  1) Recruit participants worldwide and identify as many Bunch y-DNA lineages as we can; 2) Assist project participants in learning how they connect to their own respective lines, and how they may relate to other lines; 3) Correlate the genetic and genealogical information provided by project members to gain an overall understanding of the shape and history of the larger Bunch “family tree” (the better to serve goal 2!). 

Project Priorities:  Our first priority is to serve the genealogical interests of all project members.  Our second priority is for everyone to have fun while the first priority is addressed.  To the extent that it can, the Bunch y-DNA Project will also try to serve a wider audience of genealogists and historians interested in any of the various Bunch family lines (and to serve the project administrator’s curiosity with whatever is left over).

Current Recruitment Interests:  If you meet the eligibility criteria above, we want YOU -- please join us!  We are particularly interested in:

 Unrepresented or Unmatched Lineages

- Genetic matches to our 14 currently unmatched participants in haplogroups C3, E1b, J2, R1*, R1a and R1b.

- Old World Bunches:  Bunch males representing lines that never emigrated from Europe, particularly lines from England, Scotland, the Netherlands/Flanders, Denmark or Germany.

- Atlantic Islanders:  Bunch males representing lines from Bermuda or the Caribbean Islands, particularly Barbados and the Bahamas.

- Later Arrivals:  Bunch males representing lines that immigrated to the New World in the nineteenth century or later.

- Bunch males representing lineages descended from former slaves.

- Bunch lines of proven Cherokee heritage, particularly male line descendants of Rabbit Bunch (b. ca. 1841).