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Group Administrator: Raymond Wing wing_genealogist@yahoo.com

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Project Background:

This site is designed to be a repository for all Wing [Wynge, Winge, etc.] families. Tradition states the Wing families in England derive from one of the two villages named Wing [in Rutlandshire (Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing%2C_Rutland) and Buckinghamshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing,_Buckinghamshire)].

Given the fact both villages of Wing are in the portion of England that formed the Danelaw (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw), it is likely our remote ancestor may have been part of the Viking invasion of England in the 9th Century.

The surname of Wing does not properly belong to a single family. DNA testing has shown that the common ancestor of different Wing families likely lived more than 1500 years ago (long before the adoption of surnames).

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Project Goals:

It is hoped with enough participants, a better understanding of the number of distinct Wing families can be determined as well as how the various families may be related. In addition, results may be able to identify if the Wing line came from the Danish Viking stock, from the Anglo-Saxon stock, or another stock.

It may also be possible to identify other surnames whose DNA is fairly similar to ours. These results will help show our connections to a larger family (in a somewhat similar manner to the clans of Scotland).

Project News:

We currently have results back on descendants of all three of the three sons of Rev. John Wing and Deborah Bachiler. We have multiple descendants of Daniel and Stephen tested. We also have a DNA participant who descends from a Wing family in Oxfordshire England. The results of this test showed he belonged to an entirely different haplogroup, with a common ancestor living more than 10,000 years ago.

Our goal is to obtain multiple test results from descendants of each of the grandsons of John & Deborah. As more people are tested, it may be possible to identify when certain mutations occurred. With this information, it may be easier to place which line a person descends from, when we are unable to properly track their ancestry using tradition (paper) genealogy.

Project Results:

One of our participants had a deep haplogroup testing performed. The tests results revealed that our haplogroup is R1b-P25. This haplogroup encompasses the WAMH (Western Atlantic Modal Haplogroup) and is the most common haplogroup in Western Europe.

We have received conflicting results regarding whether our family belongs to a sub-group of R1b-P25 (R1b-U106). Further testing is being undertaken to resolve this conflict.

The R1b-U106 haplogroup is quite common (which makes some comparisons difficult). It is known that upwards of 40% of the population of Holland share this haplogroup (which indicates that our remote ancestor possibly lived in that area).

Reviewing the literature on-line, it appears our ancestors lived in the area of Northern Germany/Southern Denmark before coming over to England. Given the etymology of the surname Wing (under Project Background) as well as the DNA results, it reaffirms the initial belief our remote male ancestor came to what is now England during the viking raids of the 9th Century. However, we cannot rule out that they may have came over during the Anglo-Saxon (and Jute) invasion of the Island shortly after the Romans left Britain in the 5th Century.

We have also discovered that there are a couple of markers (in the 37 marker test) descendants of Rev. John Wing share, which are relatively rare. In combination, this creates a DNA "signature" which is a good indicator to locate other surnames who have ancient ties with our Wing family. One other family that shares many of the 37 markers (including the fairly rare markers) is the descendants of Henry Howland [father of Mayflower passenger John Howland and John's brothers, Arthur and Henry Howland who also came to Massachusetts].