"Danish_Demes" - Surname Project

Members: 105

Website: www.familytreedna.com/public/Danish_Demes/

Surnames In Project: Andersen, Bach, Bak, Baktoft, Bendtsen, Christensen, Danish, Danmark, Denmark, DK, DNK, Eriksen, Glad, Hammer, Hansen, Hanson, Hauso, Hendriksen, Iversen, Jacobsen, Jacobson, Jakobsen, Jensen, Jørgensen, Jorgenson, Larsen, Lorenzen, Mathiesen, Matthiesen, Mørch, Morck, Mørk, Mortensen, Myrk, Neilson, Newman, Nielsen, Nymand, Nymann, Petersen, Peterson, Rasmussen, Sorensen, Sørensen, Thorsted, Vick, Westergaard, Westergard

A Danish regional project for anyone who has a known (or virtually certain) Danish origin, as evidenced by their earliest known ancestor having been born in Denmark and/or possessing an obviously Danish surname. In biology, a 'deme' is a group of related organisms living in a single locality; in this case, the organisms are human beings, the location is Denmark, and the purpose is genealogy! Danes were among the last in Europe to adopt surnames, and a great many of those adopted surnames were patronymics, the result of which has rendered it meaningless for most male Danes to join a typical Y-DNA 'surname project.' The 'Danish Demes' project is intended to overcome that obstacle by providing a regional project where there would be a reasonable expectation of connecting to kin who, despite having different surnames, are genetically related, and to make membership available to both males (Y-DNA and mtDNA) and females (mtDNA only). The Danish Demes project is not limited to the surnames listed below (along with some geographic keywords for the FTDNA search engine); the surnames listed are of those who have already joined the project. And, yes, some of the surnames listed below don't look obviously Danish (e.g., JORGENSON), but these are cases where an Anglized spelling is being used by an American descendant of an immigrant ancestor who did have an obviously Danish surname (e.g., JØRGENSEN).

Please fill in the form below to request to join this project. Your information will be sent to the project's Administrator, who will get in touch with you regarding your request. If the project Administrator and you agree that you should be part of the project, you will be given a web address and a "join code" which will allow you to join the project and to order DNA tests at reduced prices.