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As of December 15, 2006, this project has defined eight distinctly DIFFERENT Asbill/Asbell/et al family lines.
Four of the eight family lines appear to be distantly related (R1b haplogroup) - probably in the neighborhood of at least one to several thousand years ago - possibly much further back - definitely long before surnames were of common useage.
There are 18 total participants : at this point there appears to be little reason to attempt to use name spelling as Group identifiers as there is intermingling of spelling within groups as well as between groups.
The test results are thus far classified into Y Haplogroups as follows :
thirteen - STR test results are predicted as "R1b"
two - STR test results are predicted as "R1a"
two - STR test results are predicted as "G2"
one - STR test results is predicted as "I"
Participants hail from Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Thus far the results do not substantiate the close/near-term relatedness we anticipated for our Asbill/Asbell surname considering that all/most of this name were believed to trace back to the single immigrant ancestor Martin Asbell. This does not appear to be the case, at least through the male surname Y-line. There do appear to be several lines that have the likelihood of connecting back to Martin Asbell through female Asbells of his lineage.
In fact it is becoming crystal clear that there is an abundance of erroneous "paper trail evidence" available to the ASBILL/ASBELL genealogical researching public and that many researchers have relied on non-factual connections to tie their families into lineages which are not only not proven with documentation but are disproven by Y-DNA test results.
It is my hope that more folks will see and accept these weak links for what they really are and join in with those who have led the way in using Y-DNA research to corroborate their paper trail research. We need to have many more join this intriguing project in order to unravel the erroneous ancestral lines that hve been established over the years by sincere but misguided family researchers.
Four of the eight family lines appear to be distantly related (R1b haplogroup) - probably in the neighborhood of at least one to several thousand years ago - possibly much further back - definitely long before surnames were of common useage.
There are 18 total participants : at this point there appears to be little reason to attempt to use name spelling as Group identifiers as there is intermingling of spelling within groups as well as between groups.
The test results are thus far classified into Y Haplogroups as follows :
thirteen - STR test results are predicted as "R1b"
two - STR test results are predicted as "R1a"
two - STR test results are predicted as "G2"
one - STR test results is predicted as "I"
Participants hail from Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Thus far the results do not substantiate the close/near-term relatedness we anticipated for our Asbill/Asbell surname considering that all/most of this name were believed to trace back to the single immigrant ancestor Martin Asbell. This does not appear to be the case, at least through the male surname Y-line. There do appear to be several lines that have the likelihood of connecting back to Martin Asbell through female Asbells of his lineage.
In fact it is becoming crystal clear that there is an abundance of erroneous "paper trail evidence" available to the ASBILL/ASBELL genealogical researching public and that many researchers have relied on non-factual connections to tie their families into lineages which are not only not proven with documentation but are disproven by Y-DNA test results.
It is my hope that more folks will see and accept these weak links for what they really are and join in with those who have led the way in using Y-DNA research to corroborate their paper trail research. We need to have many more join this intriguing project in order to unravel the erroneous ancestral lines that hve been established over the years by sincere but misguided family researchers.