To identify unique genetic profiles for different branches of the Winter/Winters family in America, England, Germany, Austria, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Eventually, interested genealogists will be able to find their branch of the family with a simple DNA test.

Analysis of Y-DNA samples from men who have well-documented conventional genealogies will allow us to solve some thorny old genealogical puzzles about what the relationship may have been between the different Winter/Winters lines in early America.