The intent of the project is to: (1) Connect Butson branches that pre-date parish registers, so that there is no documentary way to connect them. -- (2) Identify uniquely Butson Y-DNA configurations -- and (3) Add to the Butson One-Name Study information.

FREE Y-DNA TEST OFFERS
Due to the importance of identifying how these Butson families connect to the rest of the Butson families and because their connections are back before parish records, we have volunteers willing to pay for a Big Y-700 genetic genealogy DNA test for a direct male-line descendant (i.e. a man who still has the Butson surname) of the following Butson families.
--- Braunton, Devon Butsons
--- Skilgate and Upton, Somerset Butsons (Update 21 Apr 2023: Big Y test now in process for this branch)
If you are a verifiable direct male-line descendant of one of these Butson families, please contact Wesley Johnston to arrange for your DNA testing (which you do via a cheek scraping).

Butson autosomal DNA matches are also sought. If you are a Butson descendant who has done an autosomal DNA test (Ancestry, 23andMe or Family Tree DNA's Family Finder), please contact the the project Administrator about uploading your results to GEDmatch for inclusion in the project.

Click here for the "Butson Family History and Y-DNA" Facebook Group.
This is a closed group. Click the "Join group" button to request to join. Requesters MUST answer all three questions to join and will not be admitted unless they answer the questions.

The Butson Surname Y-DNA Project is part of the Guild of One-Name Studies Butson Study ( http://one-name.org/name_profile/Butson ). The master lineage-linked database (which contains related families) is on Ancestry.com with a frozen snapshot rolled out to the public website at http://www.wwjohnston.net/famhist/celtic-roots-tree

We want all Y-DNA tests to eventually do the full 111 marker test. But if you cannot afford that test initially, you can test at a lower level (37 or 67 markers - 12 and 25 marker tests are useless) and later upgrade to 111 markers without having to provide a new sample. If you do want to test at the 37 marker level, the Guild of One Name Studies offers a significant discount on this test, and you should contact the Project Administrator about this.