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Group Administrator: Diana Matthiesen diana@danishdemes.org
Group Co-Administrator: Jodee James jodeejames@danishdemes.org

Project Surnames:

Andersen	Bach	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	Mortensen	Newman
Nielsen	Nymand	Nymann	Petersen
Sorensen	Sørensen	Toxwenius	Vick
Westergaard	Westergard

Group General Fund:

05/29/07 - Michelle Erbeck donation....$50
05/29/07 - Total available....$50
06/12/07 - Diana Gale Matthiesen donation....$49
06/12/07 - Total available....$99
06/18/07 - Kit N45223....($99)
06/18/07 - Total available....$0
Y-DNA37 2007 Gift Certificate $30*

Project Background:

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.

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Project Goals:

The goals of this project are to support existing paper pedigrees with genetic proof and to identify related Danish families whose differing surnames may have masked their relationship. There is an expanded project web site with further information at:

Danish Demes Regional DNA Project

Project News:

2006 Mar 23: the Danish Demes Project was opened.
2008 Aug 18: as of this date, the Y-DNA side of the project has 56 participants, with results returned for 55, while the mtDNA side of the project has 26 participants with results returned for 26.

Project Results:

Raw test results are given in tables on the Y-Results and mt-Results tabs (above), but for a discussion of what the results mean and for member lineages, please see these pages at my web site:

Danish Demes: Y-DNA Test Results

Danish Demes: mtDNA Test Results

In the results tables here on the FTDNA web site, only members tested at FTDNA are displayed. Members tested at other companies are displayed only on my pages, linked above. Your project administrator encourages all members tested at other laboratories to order the FTDNA Conversion Kit to bring their marker panels and results into compliance with FTDNA standards and to enjoy the benefits of being entered in the database at FTDNA (e.g., automatic notification of matches).

On the distribution maps (see Y-Results and mt-Results tabs), the red balloons indicate the locations of the earliest known ancestors, not the locations of the members themselves.

DNA Test Results (mtDNA) for Project Members