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Project started 10-30-2015 with David Powell as administrator and Donna Preston as co-administrator.
10/30/2015: Y-DNA of two Eure males, both with roots in western Gates County, North Carolina have been tested. Their results do not match, so despite their ancestors being from the same vicinity, the test takers represent different Eure families. According to the donors, one descends from James (father of Uriah Eure [c1759 / 1837]), and the other from Henry (father of Dempsey Eure Jr. [c1815 / between 1880-1893]).
1/26/2017: A third Eure male, also with roots in western Gates County has been tested. His results match that of one of the initial members. He descends from Benjamin Eure [c1780 / c1847], and matches the aforementioned descendant of Uriah Eure.
3/31/2017: A fourth Eure male, with roots in western Gates County has been tested. Genealogy indicates that he descends from Capt. Charles Eure [bef 1745 / between 1814-1815]. He matches the representative of Uriah Eure's lineage, and the representative of Benjamin Eure's lineage. For the sake of simplification this haplogroup has been nicknamed "Ivar" in deference to the donors belonging to haplogroup I, which has a likely Scandinavian origin. The singleton Eure haplotype, from Dempsey Eure Jr.'s lineage, has been nicknamed "Ebre" in deference to it belonging to a likely Iberian haplogroup.
4/26/2017: A fifth Eure male, with roots in western Gates County has been tested. Genealogy indicates that he descends from Stephen Eure [c1736 / 1817]. He matches the representative from Dempsey Eure Jr's lineage, and thus a new Eure haplogroup has been identified.
6/30/2017: Two more Eure males have joined the project. They are father & son, and descend from the Eure's that left northeastern North Carolina and settled in Leake Co., Mississippi in the 1840s. They both are STR matches to the "Ivar" haplotype. The son had already had (some) SNP testing, and his results placed the "Ivar" haplogroup in the S7760 branch of I-P109. Since he joined, Big-Y results came in for the representative of Benjamin Eure's line, and moved the Eure's down the haplotree two branch levels below S7760, to S14887; with indications that they could belong to a branch two more levels down that at the time were not identified. This week the Big-Y results for the (Gates County) representative of Charles Eure's line came in. The haplotree was also revised this week. The net results is that the Eure's moved down the formerly unidentified branches, to a newly defined branch of BY20538, BY20539, BY20544 & BY20545. For BY20538 and one other of these two SNPs there were positive results in both of these Eure's Big-Y tests; but for the other two SNPs one test did not yield results.
10/30/2015: Y-DNA of two Eure males, both with roots in western Gates County, North Carolina have been tested. Their results do not match, so despite their ancestors being from the same vicinity, the test takers represent different Eure families. According to the donors, one descends from James (father of Uriah Eure [c1759 / 1837]), and the other from Henry (father of Dempsey Eure Jr. [c1815 / between 1880-1893]).
1/26/2017: A third Eure male, also with roots in western Gates County has been tested. His results match that of one of the initial members. He descends from Benjamin Eure [c1780 / c1847], and matches the aforementioned descendant of Uriah Eure.
3/31/2017: A fourth Eure male, with roots in western Gates County has been tested. Genealogy indicates that he descends from Capt. Charles Eure [bef 1745 / between 1814-1815]. He matches the representative of Uriah Eure's lineage, and the representative of Benjamin Eure's lineage. For the sake of simplification this haplogroup has been nicknamed "Ivar" in deference to the donors belonging to haplogroup I, which has a likely Scandinavian origin. The singleton Eure haplotype, from Dempsey Eure Jr.'s lineage, has been nicknamed "Ebre" in deference to it belonging to a likely Iberian haplogroup.
4/26/2017: A fifth Eure male, with roots in western Gates County has been tested. Genealogy indicates that he descends from Stephen Eure [c1736 / 1817]. He matches the representative from Dempsey Eure Jr's lineage, and thus a new Eure haplogroup has been identified.
6/30/2017: Two more Eure males have joined the project. They are father & son, and descend from the Eure's that left northeastern North Carolina and settled in Leake Co., Mississippi in the 1840s. They both are STR matches to the "Ivar" haplotype. The son had already had (some) SNP testing, and his results placed the "Ivar" haplogroup in the S7760 branch of I-P109. Since he joined, Big-Y results came in for the representative of Benjamin Eure's line, and moved the Eure's down the haplotree two branch levels below S7760, to S14887; with indications that they could belong to a branch two more levels down that at the time were not identified. This week the Big-Y results for the (Gates County) representative of Charles Eure's line came in. The haplotree was also revised this week. The net results is that the Eure's moved down the formerly unidentified branches, to a newly defined branch of BY20538, BY20539, BY20544 & BY20545. For BY20538 and one other of these two SNPs there were positive results in both of these Eure's Big-Y tests; but for the other two SNPs one test did not yield results.