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Team Liddell et al DNA/mtDNA Study

Group Administrator: James Liddell - Email:

Project Surnames

Lay, layborn, Laybourn, Layburn, layburne, Laydel, Laydell, Layton, Lea, Leah, Leddel, Leddell, Leddle, Ledel, Ledwell, Lee, Leedahl, Legge, Leidel, Leidl, Leidle, Leigh, Leighton, Letton, Ley, Leybourn, Leybourne, Leyburn, Leydel, Leyden, Leyland, Leyton, Lidaill, Lidal, Lidale, Lidall, Liddaile, Liddaill, Liddal, Liddale, Liddel, Liddele, Liddell, Lidden, Lidderdale, Liddesdale, Liddiard, Liddil, Liddle, Liddll, Liddol, Lide, Lideall, Lidel, Lidele, Lidell, Liden, Lidiard, Lidie, Lidle, Liedel, Liedle, Liegh, Lindel, Lindell, LItel, Littel, Little, Loydall, Loydell, Luddall, Luddell, Luddil, Lydal, Lydall, Lyddal, Lyddale, Lyddall, Lyddel, Lyddell, Lyddie, Lydel, Lydell, Lydle, Lytel, Lyton, Lyttle, Lytton, Riddell, Riddle, Riedel, Riedl, Similar Surnames

Project Background

The Team Liddell et al DNA/mtDNA Study discussed at this website is one of two genetics projects supported and administered by Team Liddell et al. The other is our Liddesdale DNA/mtDNA Study for non-USA Team members and others from the public, and is listed separately at its own website within the FamilyTreeDNA lists.

The Team is a sizable worldwide group of non-professional family genealogists. It has no dues or assessments, does not copyright its materials and offers nothing for sale. It and its members do not receive any type of benefits, financial or otherwise, from this Study.

Write teamliddell@yahoo.com to learn about team-membership qualification, which is very simple and easy to achieve.

At present, Team Liddell has nearly 100 members on four continents and in some 14 nations, but this number is increasing on a near-weekly basis.

The Team began as a small group of related Liddells residing in the Mid-South region of the United States who had inherited and added to a very sizable set of genealogy files pertaining to their ancestors. Once the Web became a common tool and genealogy-related websites began appearing, the Liddell kin decided to begin in-gathering the other Liddells and related variants from across the world and to use the new DNA/mtDNA testing techniques.

The Team's rapid growth and its decision to offer assistance to the other variant surname families being encountered on the Web led the Team to set aside the DNA/mtDNA study for a while and concentrate on growing the Team. Durng this period, it became necessary to add "et al" to Team Liddell in order to reflect the newer members with different but similar surnames. In fact, it was a humbling experience for the original Liddells to realized that they were, in fact, just another variant surname-spelling in their own organization--but the change was made cheerfully and with affection for their new "kinfolk".

A date for the Study's launch was initially set for June 2005, a year in the future--but when two highly skilled genealogists offered their services to the Team on a pro bono basis, the Team accelerated the Study launch date to six weeks in the future at that time, which was Oct. 15, 2004.

The Team works closely with FamilyTreeDNA to ensure the satisfaction of each Study participant and to provide PERMANENT test results storage both at the Team's member-accessible Group Liddesdale3 website and on digital disks to be deposited in the archives of a number of universities worldwide yet to be selected but which will each have a genealogy curriculum and archives.

Team Liddell et al believes that our surname cluster includes as many as 90 variant spellings, all derived from the ancient Scotland border region formerly place-named Liddesdale, or as Liddesdell and Liddesdail in some old documents. Early forms of some of these surnames appear in Scot records from the 11th and 12th Centuries, AD.

A number of academics have expressed interest in our Study for several reasons. We will announce these in detail as the arrangements gel. (Some are already present as observers.)

A very important factor that is contineously observed in all aspects of this and the Liddesdale Study (see details below) is that absolute privacy and security is guaranteed to all test participants.

This Study accepts only the 37-marker Y-DNA male test results and those for females from the mtDNAPlus test for USA-residents. The Liddesdale Study accepts either the 12-marker and basic mtDNA tests or the same top-level tests listed above. The 25-marker Y-DNA test is not accepted into either Study.

Visit our Study website for additional information about the Team, our projects and our two genetics Studies: www.geocities.com/TeamLiddellDNA, or write us at TeamLiddell@Yahoo.Com

Team membership is not required for Study participation and Study participation is not a required of membership.

All test participation details are always available at our Geocities Study site, but only kit numbers and surnames (last names) are used to identify the participants.

(This Study also supports the Leyton-Leighton Surname Cluster Study and a special Perry Study during each group's formulative stages.)