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Danish Demes Regional DNA Project

Group Administrator: Diana Matthiesen - Email: Diana@danishdemes.org
Group Co-Administrator: Jodee James & Thomas Glad - Email: JodeeJames@danishdemes.org; TomGlad@danishdemes.org

Project Surnames

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

Current balance: $0.00

Group General Fund
Type Amount Date Donor Note KitNum Donation Type
Debit $99.00 6/18/2007   Kit N45223 N45223 Unknown
Credit $49.00 6/12/2007 Diana Gale Matthiesen     Unknown
Credit $50.00 5/29/2007 Michelle Erbeck     Unknown

Project Background

PLEASE NOTE: There is currently (6 Nov 2009) a malfunction on the mapping page. It is displaying balloons for people who should not be in the project — these are the ones you see outside the boundaries of Denmark. I have alerted FTDNA to the problem.

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 late to adopt surnames and many of the adopted surnames were patronymics, so for Danes, the surname is not necessarily a good indicator of biological relatedness (except for recent/close family members). In consequence, a 'surname project' is not the best way for a male Dane to connect with related kin, as well as being only indirectly available to females. This project was created to bring Danes together in a regional project where there is a better prospect of connecting with genetically related kin and to allow participation of both males and females. Because Danish Demes is a regional project, membership is limited to those with a proven (or virtually certain) origin in Denmark. Please do not request to join Danish Demes if you only suspect you have a Danish origin.

Surnames listed above (along with a few keywords for the FTDNA search engine) are those of actual project members; the project is definitely not limited to the surnames listed. These surnames are those of the Y-DNA tested male participants only. Female mtDNA is not associated with surnames because females have no surname of their own (they carry either their father's surname or patronymic or their husband's surname), so from the standpoint of mtDNA testing, surnames are totally irrelevant.

To participate meaningfully, testees will need to share their direct line ancestry back to the earliest known ancestor — preferably in the form of a GEDCOM of just the appropriate patrilineal and/or matrilineal line, not your entire database. This is a requirement, not an option, for participation in the project because DNA test results, without an accompanying pedigree, are meaningless.