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GILPIN Family researchers have been gathering information and compiling their genealogies diligently for years. You may be among the few who are able to trace your earliest ancestor back to England, or Ireland. Or, like most you may be searching to find that illusive, missing link to the past.

As a GILPIN Family researcher you have probably reached a point where you cannot identify any earlier ancestors. You may have documented multiple generations, but, at some point the leads dwindle and the trail grows cold. You have reached the preverbal "brick wall." We know that more documentary evidence remains to be discovered however traditional genealogical research will most likely never find all the connections between the various GILPIN Family groups. Until recently there was little hope of extending a cold chart, however, genealogical DNA testing may provide the answers you are seeking.

So, whether you have a complete family history leading back to the GILPIN Family in England or you are just starting to chart your ancestors, we hope you will consider joining us. Please click on the links to explore our site and read our objectives. Also, remember to check back often, as we will be updating this site as the project grows.

Take a look at What's New in our web. There are interesting articles posted here!

THE PLAN OBJECTIVES

This project is being conducted to help answer the following questions:

Does a common ancestor link all GILPIN male ancestors?

Can we determine how your GILPIN ancestors are related to other families with the GILPIN surname?

Can a link be established with the GILPINs from England and the GILPINs from Ireland?

To establish links between previously unrealized GILPIN family connections.

Simply stated the overall goal of the GILPIN Family DNA Project is to discover common paternal ancestors and establish the genetic connections among the various families through Y-chromosome DNA tests.

The GILPIN Family DNA Project has selected Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) to perform Y-chromosome DNA tests on males with the GILPIN surname (including all variant spellings). The Most Recent Common Ancestor (TMRCA) will be determined from those participants with significant matches, and a report describing the results will be posted in the secure portion of the website. Individuals without initial significant matches will also have their results posted in the secure site, hopefully future matches will be made and TMRCA linkages will be discovered. Every participant will receive a report of his own test result form FTDNA.

Mitochondrial DNA tests will be preformed on female participants and those males who desire a deeper investigation of their heritage.

CONFIDENTIALITY

The privacy of each participant is an important part of this project. Only the person providing the sample, the testing lab and the Project Administrator will know the test results. To meet the project goals requires comparing test results between all participants. To maintain the privacy of each individual participant, each test will be assigned a participant code number and the Project Administrator will associate the test results only with that code number and the participant’s lineage number. No one other than the Project Administrator and the testing lab will know who participates in the study or which result is from which person. It is also important to remember the portion of the DNA tested gives a distinctive "signature" for a lineage rather than for an individual, there is no risk of this data being of use to anyone for personal identity.

Reprinted here with permission:

From an email on the Genealogy-DNA mailing list at rootsweb.com

The are two aspects to genealogical DNA testing.

First, that of recent origin and kinships. STRS let us find kin within the last 800-1,000 years which is great for most of us lay genealogists. Beyond a 1,000 years ago, they were no SURNAMES.

However, all of us have an ancient, ancestral genetic heritage that takes us well back beyond the last great ice age of 18,000-20,000 years ago. Scientists have divided our paternal genotype into about 20-30 large groups identified as haplogroups which are defined by something called SNPS. A deep SNP test will connect your STRS and SNPs so you have a continuous genetic "snapshot" from 50,000+ years ago to present. Many of say we are Irish....however the truth be known many of us actually have Asian or African ancestors. I was always told that my Bailey were English. Wrong !!. My Haplogroup Q places my Nth great-grandfather in the Altai Mountains of Central Asia at least 14,000+ years ago. STRS and SNPS are two powerful tools available to the genealogist. Why not use both tools ?

Bill

How many Markers should I test?

How many markers you need to test to get genealogically useful results depends
largely on how rare your haplotype is. I have families that are unique at 12
markers (though presumably they won't stay that way as the size of the data pool
increases). I also have families that don't get good separation until they go
to 37 markers. It's parallel to the same situation with names, that is,
identifying you is more difficult if you are John SMITH than if you are
Engelbert HUMPERDINCK. In indentifying John SMITH, it helps greatly to know his
middle name or even his middle initial; adding more markers to someone's
haplotype is parallel to adding John's middle name to help separate him from
other John SMITHs. I guess we could think of markers 1-12 as the surname, 13-25
as the first name, and 26-37 as the middle name -- and 38-67 as the birthdate
and place! In other words, the more clues you have to the identity, the more
confident you can be of the identification. And the more common the
name/haplotype, the more clues you need.

Copied from an email at genealogy-dna mailing list at rootswe.com.

Author:

Diana Gale Matthiesen

she has a website at:

http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/GenealogyHome.shtml

Although, these articles are based on the Clan Ewing they are quite informative.

For your information:

http://clanewing.org/DNA_Project/Y-DNA.html#Project_Articles

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