St. George / St. Jore Genealogy Y-Chromosome DNA Project- Background

Background

(Please click on the tabs above to view news, results, and read about project goals.) The St. George surname, variants, and aliases have been traced to several progenitors including: 1. Jacques Laporte dit St-Georges (French Canadian, born 1627 France) 2. Pierre Laporte dit St-Georges (French Canadian, born in France) 3. Louis St. Jorre dit Sergerie (French Canadian, born 1704, Basse-Normandie, France) 4. Various de Saint Jore families of Normandy and Brittany, France. 5. Various St. Georges of the UK This list is preliminary and will continue to grow. For researchers of any of these names, DNA comparison of living male descendants can be an invaluable research tool. It can help to confirm ancestry, but it can also help with more global and puzzling research problems. Basically, it works like this: Y-chromosome DNA is passed along from father to son generation after generation virtually unchanged. So for example, all male descendants of Jacques Laporte dit St-George who inherited the surname Laporte or St. George also inherited Jacques's Y-chromosome DNA. Two distant male cousins, both descended from Jacques, and both having the surname St. George or Laporte, would match Y-chromosome DNA markers almost exactly. For more information about genealogical DNA research, please see the FAQ at Family Tree DNA. Follow this link if you would like to participate in this group project.