Seeking german ancestry Hoch surnamed males (or males with soundex equivalent surnames) to can join this project or a female sponsoring said male. Also male lines who changed the surname spelling phonetically to Hoke or anglicized it to High, since Hoch in German means tall or high. OVERVIEW: A genetic genealogy surname project to determine the unique Y-DNA chromosome markers for various unlinked Hoch germanic surnamed family groups in the USA and similar sounding (soundex code H200 in English) and to determine if these various descendants of various immigrants have one or more common male ancestors in Germany in the last 400-600 years and if possible to find their ancestral home villages or regions in Germany. The German surname Hoch means High in English. WHO CAN JOIN: Hoch or Hoke (or similar sounding or spelled) surnamed males or someone sponsoring a Hoch or Hoke surnamed or similar sounding/spelling surnamed male. Also males with the High surname who know or suspect their ancestry was German and thus possibly their surname was spelled Hoch in earlier generations. Only males can be tested for this project since only males have Y-DNA. Males with the High surname may also join. However a female researcher can sponsor a male who is related to her, i.e., a brother, father, uncle, great-uncle, cousin, etc., as long as that male was born with a surname being studied in this project. HOW TO JOIN THIS PROJECT: At this time you must have been tested either directly via FTDNA or indirectly via FTDNA via the NGS Genographic Project to join this project. Genographic Project customers must first do the free transfer of their results from the NGS database to FTDNA's database. See the "Learn More" link at the bottom of your Genographic Project personal page for how to do the free transfer of your test data to FTDNA or call FTDNA for assistance in doing the transfer. Once you have a personal account page at FTDNA, to join this Hoch project sign/log in to your FTDNA personal account page and click on the JOIN PROJECTS section in the upper left part of your personal page screen. Find the "Surnames" projects section. Click on the letter "H" category. Then click on the Hoch project link. You will then see a description of this project. Scroll down to the bottom and click on the small white join button at the bottom of the Hoch project join page. That is all there is to it. If you have not been tested before either by FTDNA or the Genographic Project and want to join this project you need to order a YDNA test kit. Click on the Request to Join This Group link in the upper left hand corner of this screen to contact the Project Admin and arrange ordering your test kit. For my traditional genealogy research for this family name see this webpage: http://www.kerchner.com/surnames.htm Project Background, Goals, Results and News Copyright (c) 2013, Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. All Rights Reserved