Results
Summary of results
With five results, none of us are related to each other!
To be related, a 12-marker test would need to show a ‘genetic distance’ of 0, or possibly 1 at the most. The genetic distances of the five participants to each other are shown below and are all considerably more than 1.
Table of genetic distances on 12-marker test
_______47931__48102__57430__60363
41340____14_____10_____11_____18
47931____________6_____13_____18
48102__________________13_____14
57430_________________________21
Three of the five are Haplotype I, which tends to be more prevalent in Northern and Eastern Europe, one is R1b1 which is more prevalent in Western Europe, and one is probably E3b, which is more prevalent in Southern and Eastern Europe, though this last cannot be determined unambiguously without a further test. In Germany about 46% of men are R1b, 22% I, and 6% E3b.
So far it would appear that the name has multiple origins, perhaps of the order of 20, as it would seem to be particularly bad luck if we happen to have 4 or 5 individuals who have an illegitimacy or adoption at some point in their ancestry.
Participants
41340: The descent back to Florian Gauss runs through many generations living in Württemberg and is well documented, though of course there could have easily been an illegitimacy or adoption which is not recorded as such.
48102: Stephen Gauss is known to have come from Croatia, and the closest matches on the YSearch database are also mainly from Slavic Eastern Europe. This suggests that his surname was either a Croatian name which happens to have been spelt the same way as the German name (there were 10 families with the name in the area at the time), or that an emigré German adopted a Croatian boy, either knowingly or through illegitimacy.
47931: Has an origin in Baden, Germany.
57430: Does not know much about where his ancestors came from, other than from Germany.
60363: Has an origin in Felldorf, Württemberg, Germany