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Angelica Kauffmann

Welcome to the Kaufmann Surname Research Project

Kaufmann is a surname with many variants such as Kauffmann, Kaufman, Coffman, Caughman, Caufman, and Kauffman. In German, the name means merchant, businessman, or trader. Famous "Kaufmann" individuals and the distribution of the surname in Germany can be found in the Wikipedia article.

From an etymological view the name has its roots in kaufen + Mann; historically from the Middle High German koufman. from the Old High German koufman The name is pronounced like this: Kaufmann

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Goals: Provide a surname project to support genealogical investigations of Kaufmann - of whatever spelling - lineages utilizing DNA based data to supplement existing paper documentation or to provide a scientific basis for establishing relationships where documentation does not exist. Project participants are encouraged to work with their matches to move forward with their particular lineage investigations.

Project administrators will not be maintaining pedigrees of project participants due to the increasing number of different lineages represented in the project. Administrators are available to provide testing guidance based upon your matches and your research goals.

 

Support Research

If you have not done so, join the project if you are testing a paternal or maternal Kaufmann lineage. You can join the project by ordering a yDNA37, 67, or 111 marker kit at this location.   

Encourage Kaufmann’s of any spelling variant that you are acquainted with to consider testing here at FTDNA as part of the project.  Information from cousins as close as 3rd can be used to help clarify what a specific ancestor’s results may have been.

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Next Gen Y Sequencing is the new test that pushes Y-DNA research in the future. By ordering and making the results available you will help tremendously to increase public knowledge and provide information down to the tester. The results of this test may be utilized to link together distant family branches where no paper linkage can be established.

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