Results
9 March 2006
The results for kit number 46491 came in recently. This participant is descended from Julien de St. Jore of Normandy, France, born circa 1700. We expected to find a match here between kit numbers 46491, 42310, and 45343 because the two ancestors, Julien de St. Jore and Louis St. Jorre dit Sergerie, have been traced to the same region of France at about the same timeframe. However, there is no genetic match.
We're hoping at this point to build a larger base of participants with de St. Jorre or St. Jorre ancestors.
St. Jorre is an uncommon name, and its origins remain a mystery. It could be that several unrelated families adopted the surname about the same time, rather than there being one original St. Jorre. Having a larger base of participants with the St. Jorre name would help to begin sorting out this situation.
8 March 2006
Kit numbers 42310 and 45343 match on 36 of 37 markers. This denotes a genetic distance of 1. Both participants with kit numbers 42310 and 45343 have good paper evidence for their descent from Louis St. Jorre dit Sergerie. They have thus corroborated each other's relationship to Louis St. Jorre dit Sergerie. This also establishes the y-chromosome markers against which other descendants of Louis St. Jorre dit Sergerie may compare their test results.
7 December 2005
The first of the project results are in. Two participants in this project have matched the first 12 markers exactly. This confirms the common ancestry of kit numbers 42310 and 45343 who also have paper trails back to Louis St. Jorre dit Sergerie.