Updated 14 September 2024 The Big Y 700 is our test of choice for males. To help find family connections for the PICTONs of all spelling and variations. By joining the group you agree to provide the project with 3 things. 1) The surname of the person being tested. 2) The name, date and place of birth of the oldest researched male ancestor of your male patrilineal line and the oldest researched female ancestor of your matrilineal line. 3) Permission to publish the DNA results and the names, dates and places of birth of the oldest known patrilineal or matrilineal ancestor. The Picton Surname Project is aimed to unite together all those Picton descendants who have origins in Wales. It also aims to explore the origins of the surname and to continue to use the advances in DNA technology to advance the understanding of migration patterns of the family into Wales. It also hopes to establish the origins and family of the Picton family of Rudbaxton into which Sir Thomas Picton (1758-1815) is related. It also seeks to encourage research into records in Wales and elsewhere to help substantiate the clues provided by the DNA results and to place family members in an appropriate historical context. There is also some more limited information on the Picton surname and variants with a non-Welsh origin. These include some families in Monmouthshire, who link back to villages in Buckinghamshire, and some North Wales families in counties like Flintshire, who link back into other families in Cheshire and Lancashire. Families from Wales comprise approximately 1/3 of the BMD entries for the surname. Detailed statistics are still being compiled. Whilst nearly all Picton BMDs, 1837-2005/6 have been entered, the Pickton spelling variation, comprising some 10% of the numbers of Picton entries, have still to be properly counted and indexed. A website is available in the USA: http://www.picton.us/ Brian Picton Swann