CARROLL Y-Chromosome DNA Surname Project- Background

Administrators

Surnames

Cariel, Carill, Caroll, Carrel, Carrell, Carrill, Carrol, Carrole, Carroll, Caryll, Charles ( Donegal ), Karel, Karol, O'Carriel, O'Carrol, O'Carroll

Background

While a surname itself may give us incomplete or misleading or, at best, only general information about the origin of a family, DNA-testing can give us concrete evidence for identifying and separating family lines. Y-chromosome DNA testing is especially helpful because the male Y-chromosome is handed down, father to son, unchanged through the generations, except for rare mutations which, in themselves, can be helpful indicators of branching. The accessibility and affordability of family DNA testing is doubtless the greatest technical advance in the history of genealogical research because -- at long, long last -- we have a tool to break down those brick walls!

General Fund

Project Stats

Statistic Type Count
Distinct mtDNA Haplogroups 23
Distinct Y-DNA Confirmed Haplogroups 12
Distinct Y-DNA Predicted Haplogroups 9
Family Finder 12
Maternal Ancestor Information 51
Maternal GEDCOMs Uploaded 12
mtDNA 49
mtDNA Full Sequence 14
mtDNA Plus 32
mtDNA Subgroups 0
Paternal Ancestor Information 86
Paternal GEDCOMs Uploaded 27
Predicted Y-DNA Haplogroups 40
Total Members 164
Unpredicted Y-DNA Haplogroups 0
Unreturned Kits 1
Y-DNA Deep Clade (After 2008) 26
Y-DNA Deep Clade (Prior to 2008) 5
Y-DNA Subgroups 0
Y-DNA111 16
Y-DNA12 149
Y-DNA25 121
Y-DNA37 115
Y-DNA67 78