About us
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Note: There is another project for the surnames of Stockhaeuser, Stockhaus, Stockhause, Stockhausen, Stockheuser, Stockhusen, von Stockhausen located at http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Stockhausen/default.aspx Please contact the project administrator if you are not sure which project to join!
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If you want more information about your direct male line, you must be male, or find a male in your family tree such as your brother or father to participate. For the male, the direct male line would be his father, his father's father, and so forth back in time. The male would order a Y DNA test.
Taking a Y DNA test is an opportunity to discover information on three levels:
- Genealogical
- Surname
- Anthropological
The primary use of Genetic Genealogy testing is to provide information which cannot be found in the paper records to help you with your genealogy research. The applications of DNA testing for genealogy are as diverse as the problems that can be encountered in your research. For example, perhaps you are trying to bridge the gap of destroyed records, or trying to sort out multiple families with the same surname in a location. Perhaps you have encountered a brick wall, or can not make a connection to the ancestral homeland.
Once you take a Y-DNA test, you will be able to determine which other family trees with your surname are related to you.
DNA testing for genealogy is a tremendous opportunity to uncover information not found in the paper records, to provide information to help you with your genealogy research, to contribute to the knowledge about your surname, and to learn about your distant origins.