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Background

We welcome your interest and  participation in our Groom/Grooms/Groomes/Croom/Crume dna project if you have an ancestor with this surname.  We would particularly welcome participation in our y-dna project should you be a male with surname of Groom/Grooms/Groomes/Croom/Crume or variant as the y-dna marker values are passed from father to son. You are advised if there is a match to another descendant so that you can communicate and compare information to determine the common ancestor. Be sure to look for the discounted prices for project group participation.

With 28 current members, we have identified 11 lineages and matched over half of the participants with others of similar bloodlines. We suspect four of the lines go back to England in the early 1700's. Others may be traced to German or Scotch/Irish roots.   Rudy Groom and Ann Lenz started this project, slowly we are getting our answers.

The tests are administered by a company named "Family Tree DNA" . The actual test is quite simple. Participants are mailed a DNA Test Kit and all they have to do is swab the inside of their mouth a couple times. Then, mail the kit back, and that's all there is to it. It takes about 4-6 weeks to get the results back. There are four types of tests, the 12-marker, the 25-marker, the 37-marker, and the 59-marker. Each male will have one of several possible "alleles" at each "gene site." These differences are what distinguish individuals and their close paternal line relatives from other individuals and paternal lines. The more differences between any two individuals, the more generations there are that separate the two individuals from a common paternal ancestor. Two or three allele differences out of 12 gene sites, and four or five among 25, generally indicate that the common paternal ancestor pre-dates the widespread use of surnames, which began about 800 years ago. Of course, this is statistical probability and not absolute.

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