11/21/2011  We have our first Hulin....Hulan match.  This match supports theories that a common male ancestor, born prior to 1740 with the surname Hulin or a derivative, resided in Virginia and migrated to North Carolina, as both test takers trace lineage to individuals born in Virginia prior to 1770!  A very exciting discovery!!

12/21/2017  Another YDNA match between two members of this project, each of whom descends from a different son of Marcus Larsson Hulings (d. 1689), confirms the YDNA signature of their first immigrant ancestor.  He was only called by the surname (Hulling) in one posthumous document; but his sons Laurence and Marcus both used it.  Marcus Larsson arrived as an adult on the Swedish ship Öhrnen, in 1654, according to Amandus Johnson's 1911 study.  The late Peter S. Craig disputed this claim in his brief notice of this family in the Swedish American Genealogist X:1 (March, 1990), pp. 11-12 (and endnotes 49-50, p. 16).  I have not consulted Craig's later publications, for this news note, but they are probably the most reliable sources in print for the earliest generations of this Hulings family.

11/18/2019  The Virginia/North Carolina family referred to in the 2011 News post (above) has had several more matches in our project within the past year.  The same basic YDNA signature (currently displayed up to a maximum of 111 STR markers) has been found in branches that currently spell our surname Hulan, Hulin, Huling, Hulen, and Hulon.  (The Hulon spelling, originating in Marion County, SC, is represented in the project by men named Coats.)  FTDNA's BigY-700 test was introduced this year, and two of our members have their results.  These suggest that our family has had several new SNP mutations since arriving in North America in the 17th century.  At this writing, all four of our project members who have 111 STR markers displayed have now ordered the BigY-700.  Comparing all of our results should help to refine the timelines on which our branches have separated -- however we spell our last name.  A detail that will be especially interesting to track is the estimated age of any SNP that one branch has, but another branch lacks.  These estimates are provided to members who have uploaded their BigY or other NextGen test results to YFull, a third party analysis service.  For the Hulan and Hulen samples (YF02387 and YF65221), look for the two consecutive American flags.  These kits are currently estimated by YFull to share a paternal ancestor -- and a dozen named SNPs -- 350 years ago.  The display will include some of our more distant kin in the same paternal lineage.  https://www.yfull.com/groups/r-df27/tree/R-Y7765/

01/07/2020  On an experimental basis, I intend to turn on the forum feature of this project's "Activity Feed."  For FTDNA customers who have joined this project it should become visible, though not to the general public, and not to non-members who are signed in to other FTDNA projects.  According to the Code of Conduct for administrators, "The activity feed provides a means for project members to collaborate and share their research findings, and to get to know each other.  Members are encouraged to ask and answer questions on anything related to genealogy and DNA testing."