Project Goals
Aid Traditional Genealogy Research by:
- Establishing family relationships through genetic matches where surnames don't match but a common geographic origin in East Anglia has been established (i.e. maternal lines for mtDNA matches; false paternities, out of wedlock births, etc. for YDNA matches); and
- Determining origins of geographic surnames based on East Anglian place names.
Research East Anglian Deep Ancestry by:
- Mapping the distribution of project member haplotypes and haplogroups; and
- Looking for correlations between mapped haplotype/haplogroup distributions with known or presumed Angle, Dane, Roman and/or pre-Roman population centres.
YDNA Project participants are encouraged (but not required) to extend their profiles to 37 or 43 markers and have SNP testing done to determine their Haplogroup subclade.
