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GANDER DNA Project

Project Goals



  • Discover information to help with our family history research

  • Discover which family trees are related

  • Discover information which may solve research problems, and/or resolve brick walls

  • Sort out multiple families found in the same location

  • Confirm or get clues regarding migrations

  • Confirm suspected events, such as illegitimacy and adoption

  • Find any mistaken connections in family trees

  • Validate family history research

  • Bridge gaps in the paper records

  • Confirm surname variants or find previously unknown variants

  • Discover information to define the major branches of the tree going back to the origin of the surname

  • Discover information about the evolution of the surname

  • Discover clues regarding the origin of the surname

  • Combine results with research in early records to determine the number of points of origin for the surname

  • Preserve DNA results for future research, to protect against any male line becoming extinct

  • Discover information about our distant origins