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Group Administrator: Marleen Van Horne msvnhrn@jps.net

Project Background:

In the 1600s, three men immigrated to New Netherlands, whose descendants took the surname Van Hoorn / Van Horne / Van Horn. They were Jan Cornelissen, Christian Barentsen and Matthys Cornelissen. They were not related, and came from different places in Western Europe.

Over the years, mistakes in connection have been made in the conventional pedigree published for the Van Horne surname. It is hoped that the Van Horne yDNA Project will correct those mistakes

Since the 1600s, other families with some variation of the Van Horne surname have immigrated to North America. This project is open to all families with the surname, in the hope of identifying the lines of all Van Horne families

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Project Goals:

The purpose of the Van Horne yDNA Project is to identify the genetic lines of the three immigrants to New Netherlands, as well as the genetic lines of all the Van Horne families who came after them.

Once the genetic lines have been established, we hope to build a sufficient database, so that in the future we will be able to tell a project participant which line is his family, without benefit of a paper pedigree

Project News:

Four of the test participants have either registered for, or upgraded to the 67 marker test. We are waiting for those test results.

Project Results:

As of 5 September 2006, six men and one woman have participated in the project.

Five of the men have documented pedigree showing descent from Matthys Cornelissen. Four of these men have a genetic match that is close enough to be able to say they are descended from a common ancestor. The Haplogroup assigned to this group is I1a, indicating the original ancestor was of Viking or Scandinavian origin, which tracks well with Jutland as the documented place of origin for Matthys Cornelissen.

The fifth participant in this group did not match and has a Haplogroup of J1a, which indicates the original ancestor came from the Eastern Mediterannean

The sixth participant has a conventional pedigree showing descent from Christian Barentsen. As there is only one participant in this group, we can not be sure we have identified the genetic line. We need more descendants of Christian Barentsen to comfirn the line.

The lone female in the project shows an mtDNA line going back to the Soumi of Finland, or possible the Catalunya of Spain.

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