Remington Group

Group Administrator: - Email: JP57@Hotmail.com

Project Background

This project was started so that this well recognized surname would have a presence on the website. Hopefully, more Remington surname participants will be added to help administer and carry on the research efforts. DNA testing may help several dedicated Remington researchers break the bottlenecks that exist in the written records and push the lines of descent further back than possible with existing traditional genealogical sources. The surname descendants do have a fascinating history and connecting them to a common source or family may shed light on the ever increasing interest in people's personal history and connection with the ancestors. It is a fun hobby and I hope more become interested and help collect the wealth of information that science and research can bring together.

Members can access the order form for the Remington Group project by going to www.familytreedna.com. In the upper right corner, there is a box that says Search a DNA Project. Type in Remington. It will take you to a link to that project order form. We recommend at least the 25 marker test, but preferably the 37 marker or more.

We currently have three Remington surname participants. The results will be updated shortly. Remington 3 is R1b, but may have some deviation in descent between 5 and 7 generations back - so the source of that surname consistency may be in doubt. He is listed at ysearch as profile KRP6R.
Two previously unrelated lines back to at least 1788 using Remington surnames are both I1 (formerly I1a Haplogroup)and deviate only at DYS 390. So the connection is presumed to be about 7 generations back. Remington 1 on this haplogroup can trace use of the surname uninterrupted back to 1801 in Tenn. and probably back to 1788 in NC (profile FCBRC at ysearch.org). Remington 2 in this haplogroup can trace back to Manlius, NY and probably with more work back to the Warwick,RI/Conn./Mass. line that supposedly descended from 3 brothers who settled initially in Massachusetts in 1637. Remington 2 results and contact info can be viewed at ysearch.org as profile 8T9ZJ.
Will need more results from male line Remington surname descendants who can trace uninterrupted lines back to that early Mass./RI/Ct/NY group, but since this line is believed to have populated most of the Remington surnames in the US, right now the assumption is that this line is dominated with Haplogroup I1 results.

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Thanks and Good Luck! JP