Halstead DNA Project

Project Background

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid271548443?bctid=240040784

This project was created for individuals who want to perform Halstead (of all spellings) family tree projects, amateur and professional genealogists who wish to research and extend their Halstead family trees by confirming records from common and DNA resources, and for determining if a person is part of a larger group of people.

A Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname. Since surnames are passed down from father to son like the Y-chromosome, this test is for males taking a Y-DNA test. Females do not carry their father’s Y-DNA and acquire a new surname by way of marriage, so the tested individual must be a male that wants to check his direct paternal line (father’s father’s father’s…) with a Y-DNA12, Y-DNA37, or Y-DNA67 marker test. Females who would like to check their direct paternal line can have a male relative with this surname order a Y-DNA test. Females can also order an mtDNA test for themselves such as the mtDNA or the mtDNAPlus test and participate in an mtDNA project.

ATTENTION:
All participants of the National Geographic Genographic DNA Project who are descended on a direct paternal line from Halsteads are welcome to join the Halstead Surname DNA Project!

DNA Collection Method The collection of a DNA sample may sound like a rather daunting process - however it is a very simple and painless procedure which is excellently explained by Dave Dorsey's step by step photographic guide to the whole process.

Example:

http://www.davedorsey.com/dna.html

DNA Newbie Glossary:
http://www.isogg.org/glossary.htm

We would like to encourage everyone to put yourself on the map, which appears under "Y Results," below the haplotype chart. In order to do this, you'll need to go to the "Set-up Preferences" tab in your personal page. At the bottom of that Set-up page, there is a place to enter the name of your earliest paternal ancestor, and the latitude and longitude of his place of origin. This data may be found in several places. One of them can be found by following the link provided by FTDNA right there. You may need to use the Internet Explorer browser and enter the name of the city and country again, when you get to the external mapping website. But this should provide the latitude and longitude. It has to be in decimal form, instead of the old form with degrees and minutes. Enter the decimal numbers into the boxes, and you should then be able to see your dot appear on the map! Click on the "+" sign to zoom in on the map, and "-" to zoom out. You can also switch to a lovely satellite photo for the background, using the button on the upper right-hand side. Enjoy!