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

Current balance: $0.00

Project Stats

Statistic Type Count
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