Welcome to the

Eastern Tennessee

Dual DNA Project

                                                                        

Description

Welcome to the Tennessee (Eastern) DNA Project. East Tennessee geography is dominated by the Blue Ridge mountains and the Great Appalachian Valley, and in many ways this

helped define the people of the region. This is a combined Y-DNA and mtDNA Geographical Project organized to honor the early settlers of the region and to provide a resource to

help find our connections to some of those early settlers. The Tennessee (Eastern) DNA Project is open to those who have ancestors who lived in the area which makes up the

present day counties of: Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Cumberland, Fentress, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins,

Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Scott, Sequatchie, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union, and Washington.

Duel Geographic Project

A Geographic Project connects individuals who believe their direct line comes from a specific location. The Dual Geographic Projects are for individuals who order an mtDNA or Y-DNA test. Either their direct maternal line (mother's mother's mother's...) or direct paternal line (father's father's father's...) lived in this area, especially from pre-statehood into the 1800s. Those who have only Family Finder results may also join but those results will not appear in the reports.

Surnames:

Anderson, Artrip, Atchley, Bailey, Barksdale, Bowe, Bowers, Breeding, Buchanan, Burton, Carico, Colley, Counts, Culbertson, Deakins, Dunn, Emert, Finney, Fox, Gass, Grizzle, Hatfield, Hayes, Hill, Holeman, Headrick, Howell, Houston, Hurst, Jack, Jenkins, Kerr, Kiser, Law, LaForce, Long, Lowe, Magdeline, Magill, Maples, Mitchell, Moody, Mullins, Neidig, O'Brien, Pressley, Phipps,  Price, Rasnick, Reagan, Reeves, Robinson, Ross, Sargent, Shelley, Skeen, Spoon, Stacey, Sutherland,  Sutton, Swindall, Taylor, Terry, Thornhill, Tolliver, Trent, Trigg, Underwood, Vanover, Walker, White, Winterslick, Wiseman, Woody

New Surnames added: Taylor, Tokely, Crowder, Harwood, Sain (Sein), Buckner, Easterly, Jones, Hayes, Huff, Bryan, O’Neal, Ogle, Hitch, Womble

(added 09/22/2013): Banks, Berry, Booth, Clark, Hatcher, Lusk, McInturff, McKeehan, Patton, Rowe, Williams, Hughes, Kidd, Miller, Peterson, Poore, and Starnes

 

Smoky Mountain memories etched forever in our minds,

Smoky Mountain roots running deep and strong.