Wiregrass Georgia DNA Project- Background
Administrators
Surnames
Adicks, Akins, Albritton, Alderman, Alexander, Alford, Allen, Allman, Altman, Anderson, Andrews, Appling County, Arnold, Arnsdorff, Asbell, Aspinwall, Atkins, Atkinson County, Bacon, Bacon County, Bagley, Baker, Barber, Barnard, Bartow, Bass, Baxley, Baxter, Beasley, Bell, Bennett, Berrien County, Bird, Blackburn, Blair, Blalock, Bland, Blitch, Boatright, Boatwright, Bohanan, Booth, Boothe, Bowen, Boyd, Boyett, Boyette, Boyt, Bradford, Bradshaw, Bragg, Branch, Brander, Brantley County, Brown, Bryan, Buchannan, Buchannon, Buchans, Buckins, Bulloch, Bunn, Burchett, Burgsteiner, Burkhalter, Byrd, Callaway, Calloway, Camden County, Cannady, Cannon, Carroll, Carter, Carver, Cason, Charlton County, Childs, Clark, Clarke, Clements, Clifton, Clinch County, Cobb, Coe, Coffee County, Colding, Coleman, Colley, Collins, Cone, Connell, Cook, Cook County, Cooke, Cooper, Corad, Corbett, Corbitt, Corrie, Corry, Corson, Coursey, Courson, Coward, Cowart, Crapps, Craven, Crawford, Crews, Cribbs, Croft, Crosby, Currie, Curry, Daniel, Daniels, Dasher, Daugharty, Davis, Deal, Deas, Dease, Deen, Deloach, DeVane, Dial, Dickson, Dillard, Dixon, Dorminey, Dorminy, Douglas, Douglass, Dowling, Drawdy, Driggers, Dryden, Dubberly, Duke, Dukes, Dunn, Durden, Durrance, Durrence, Dyal, Dyall, Dyals, Dyess, Easterling, Echols County, Edenfield, Ellis, Evans, Evers, Exley, Farr, Fender, Fields, Findley, Fitzgerald, Fletcher, Flowers, Floyd, Folsom, Frier, Fullwood, Fussell, Futch, Gaskins, Geiger, Georgia, Giddens, Gieger, Gill, Gilliard, Gillis, Gillyard, Girtman, Glisson, Glynn County, Gnann, Godbee, Goin, Goins, Goodbee, Goodbread, Gornto, Grantham, Gray, Green, Greene, Greiner, Grey, Griffin, Griffis, Griffith, Griner, Groover, Guess, Guest, Gugel, Gyger, Hack, Hagan, Hagen, Hagens, Hagin, Hague, Hall, Hancock, Handley, Hardee, Harden, Hardin, Hargraves, Hargroves, Harper, Harrell, Harrington, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Harvey, Hayes, Haygen, Haygens, Heck, Heidt, Heinle, Heirs, Henderson, Hendley, Hendricks, Hendrix, Hendry, Hensley, Herrin, Hersey, Hester, Hiers, Higginbotham, Highsmith, Hill, Hilliard, Hobby, Hodges, Holland, Hollis, Holloway, Holmes, Holton, Holtzendorff, Holzendorf, Howard, Huber, Hudson, Hughes, Hunter, Hursey, Hussey, Hutcheson, Hutchinson, Hutson, Hutto, Huxford, Hyers, Ingrim, Irwin County, Ivey, James, Jarrell, Jarriel, Jeff Davis County, Jeffers, Jeffords, Jenkins, Jernigan, Johns, Johnson, Johnston, Joiner, Jones, Jordan, Joyce, Joyner, Justice, Keene, Kelly, Kennedy, Kicklighter, Kight, King, Kirkland, Kiser, Kitchen, Knight, Knoles, Knowles, Knox, Lafile, Lamb, Lane, Lang, Langdale, Lanier, Lankford, Lassiter, Lastinger, Lee, Lewis, Liles, Limeberger, Lindsey, Lineburger, Long, Lord, Lott, Luke, Lynn, Mallory, Malphus, Manning, Martin, Mason, Mathias, Mathis, Mattox, Mayo, McCall, McClelland, McCranie, McCullough, McDaniel, McDonald, McDowell, McElveen, McIntosh, McKinney, McLean, McMillan, McMullen, McWilliams, Meeks, Melton, Mercer, Middleton, Miles, Miller, Milton, Minchew, Mixon, Mizell, Mobley, Monk, Moody, Moore, Morgan, Morris, Mosley, Mulling, Murphy, Murray, Nail, Neidlinger, Nesmith, Nettles, Newbern, Newton, Noles, Norman, Northern Florida, Öchslin, Oechsle, Ogle, Oliver, O'Neal, O'Quinn, O'Steen, Overstreet, Pacetti, Padgett, Pafford, Page, Palmer, Parker, Parrish, Patterson, Paulk, Payne, Peacock, Peavy, Peebles, Peeples, Peters, Peterson, Phelps, Pierce County, Pittman, Polk, Poole, Pope, Popwell, Powell, Prescott, Purdom, Purvis, Raker, Raley, Raulerson, Ray, Reddick, Reddish, Register, Remshart, Rentz, Revell, Revells, Revels, Revills, Revils, Rewis, Reynolds, Rich, Richardson, Rigdon, Riner, Roberson, Roberts, Robinson, Rodgers, Rountree, Rowe, Rowell, Royal, Royals, Ruis, Rushing, Ryals, Sackinger, Samples, Sapp, Saturday, Sauls, Saunders, Schneider, Scott, Sears, Seckinger, Sedgwich, Sedgwick, Sellars, Sharp, Sharpe, Shaw, Sheffield, Sikes, Simmons, Simpson, Sineath, Sirmans, Skinner, Smart, Smith, Southard, Spear, Spell, Spivey, Stafford, Stanaland, Stanfield, Starling, Staten, Stephens, Stewart, Stone, Stoner, Strickland, Studstill, Summerlin, Surrency, Sutton, Sweat, Tahn, Talley, Tally, Tanner, Tapley, Tattnall County, Taylor, Thigpen, Thomas, Thompson, Thrift, Tilghman, Tillman, Timmerman, Tison, Todd, Tomlinson, Touchton, Townsend, Treulen, Tucker, Turner, Tuten, Tyson, Underhill, Vaughan, Vaughn, Vickers, Wainright, Wainwright, Walden, Waldon, Waldron, Walker, Ward, Ware County, Warren, Waters, Weathers, Weaver, Weldon, Wells, Wesbury, West, Westberry, Wester, Wetherington, Whidden, Whiddon, White, Whitehead, Wiggins, Wilcox, Wildes, Wilkinson, Williams, Willis, Wilson, Wiregrass, Wiregrass Georgia, Wisenbaker, Wood, Woods, Wooten, Wright, Yarbrough, Yates, Yeomans, Young, Zant, Zeigler, Ziegler, Zimmerman, Zipperer
Background
This Regional DNA Project is for living descendants of the pioneers of the Wiregrass area of Georgia and the neighboring area of northern Florida.
Wiregrass Georgia is the region in southeast Georgia that includes the current counties of Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Colquitt, Cook, Echols, Glynn, Irwin, Jeff Davis, Lanier, Lowndes, Pierce, Thomas, Tift, Turner, Ware, Wayne, Wilcox and Worth.
The northern Florida counties in close proximity to the Wiregrass Georgia region (commonly referred to as the Suwannee Land) is where many of the descendants of the early Wiregrass pioneers migrated. The Florida Suwannee Land counties are: Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Madison, St. Johns, Putnam, Suwannee, Taylor, and Union.
General Fund
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Project Stats
| Distinct mtDNA Haplogroups |
74 |
| Distinct Y-DNA Confirmed Haplogroups |
44 |
| Distinct Y-DNA Predicted Haplogroups |
18 |
| Family Finder |
137 |
| Maternal Ancestor Information |
353 |
| Maternal GEDCOMs Uploaded |
53 |
| mtDNA |
280 |
| mtDNA Full Sequence |
81 |
| mtDNA Plus |
194 |
| mtDNA Subgroups |
0 |
| Paternal Ancestor Information |
499 |
| Paternal GEDCOMs Uploaded |
110 |
| Predicted Y-DNA Haplogroups |
193 |
| Total Members |
738 |
| Unpredicted Y-DNA Haplogroups |
1 |
| Unreturned Kits |
12 |
| WTY |
1 |
| Y-DNA Deep Clade (After 2008) |
87 |
| Y-DNA Deep Clade (Prior to 2008) |
38 |
| Y-DNA Subgroups |
14 |
| Y-DNA111 |
40 |
| Y-DNA12 |
603 |
| Y-DNA25 |
523 |
| Y-DNA37 |
483 |
| Y-DNA67 |
287 |
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