Results
So far we have six members in the project. All of us live in different parts of the United States, and had never communicated prior to joining the project. Until recently all of us are at a dead-end with our research, with all but one traced back to the mid 1700’s. Three of us have traceable family trees to Pennsylvania. One is from Virginia. A descendent of the Hugh Dunn family recently join the project. His test is on it's way to the lab. And the last lives in HI, but states his family can from either PA of NC.
Four of us have the results of our 12 marker DNA test. What we found is that two of us Steve & Mike have an exact match, however we have not been able to determine where we are connected as yet; my family is traced back to Western, PA, late 1700’s and Mike’s only knows that his father was born in Philadelphia, PA. Family lore has his family coming from Upper PA.
Dave’s DNA test matched Mike’s and Steve’s ten out of twelve markers, which means that we probable shared a common ancestor further back in time. Dave’s has traced his family back to the middle of Pennsylvania, mid 1700’s, and has done extensive research on the PA Dunn’s.
Victor’s DNA test matched the Mike’s and Steve’s nine out of twelve markers, and Dave’s eight out of Twelve markers. Vic has his family traced back to Fredrick County, VA, mid 1700’s. Victor has done extensive research on the VA Dunn’s
From the results so far, it looks as though we have three separate Dunn lines, with distant connections. Because all of our lines come to a dead-end we cannot use our family linage as bench marks. It is for this reason that we offered to fund five DNA tests.