Project News
On Oct. 6, 2004, nearly two weeks before our Study's launch date, we already had five Team Liddell members committed to Study participation. Within 18 hours of our posting our first announcement of the Study on the Web late on Oct. 5, 2002 we began receiving queries from across the world. The number of participants continues to grow, despite our few numbers in the entire world. At present, we are one of the most thoroughly and comprehensively tested groups in the FTDNA rosters.
The success to date of the Team's first and largest Study discussed on this website led it in April 2005 to create a lower-cost Liddesdale DNA/mtDNA Study listed under that name here at FamilyTreeDNA for the benefit of non-USA Team members and the general public.
This newer Liddesdale Study allows for the first time the use of the 12-marker y-DNA test for males and the basic mtDNA "XX" test for females in all non-USA lands. As with the Team Liddell et al Study, the new Study is open to all Team members and members of the general public, but only if they reside in non-USA lands. Also in keeping with the older Study, the Liddesdale Study is open to those who have surnames listed in our surname cluster provided here and at the Liddesdale website, OR who have a surname that is similar to these.
See the Liddesdale DNA/mtDNA Study site for additional information on that Study.
In April 2005, Team Liddell et al decided to create a Liddesdale DNA/mtDNA Study for the benefit of non-USA retirees throughout the world so they can participate in our genetics study even if at a lower level of scientific refinement because of the less expensive tests permitted in the new Study. Visit the Liddesdale Study page at this website for more information, or write teamliddell@yahoo.com with your questions.
In May 2005, Team Liddell et al decided to automatically enroll all of its test participants in both the present Study here and in the Liddesdale Study in the National Geographic Society's "Origins of Mankind" Study since the goals of that five-year project and our goals are identical, and also because the magazine has also selected FamilyTreeDNA as its testing service. (See the Genographics "section" on the Family Tree DNA homepage at this site for additional details on the Society's five-year project.)
>>> NOTE! The National Geographic Society's Study is now underway (early-June 2005) and Team Liddell et al is the WORLD'S FIRST genealogy/genetics group to enroll in that major study, and is also the first to enroll its female members in it. <<<
ADDED JUNE 2005--Our first international test participant in the Liddesdale Study (which see elsewhere at the FamilyTreeDNA website) received his lab results and found that he, an Australian, is closedly related to a group of R1b Liddells in North America--or, they to him, depending on the point of view. Genealogy charts are being exchanged with the Australian's line firmly anchored in Scotland and the North Americans trying to find their way to his ancestors. Just another triumph for our new, combined genealogy genetics Studies!