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Description
The McCarty, South Carolina-Edgefield DNA project was formed as an extention of the larger McCarthy project in order to better focus on those of the surnames McCarty, McCarthy, McCartney, McCarter who seemingly originated in and around Edgefield, South Carolina at the close of the Revolutionary War. The goal was to locate male descendants from these early McCarty families and separate their ancestors into kinship groups. The project was successful in sorting out at least 3 distinct and unrelated families that were also neighbors.
Subsequent to this beginning focus, additional McCarty families were also found to be prominent in the southern states, and as a result, those were also included in this project.
Additionally, since FamilyTreeDNA has added mtDNA testing for both male and females, those with ties to the females within these McCarty families have also been included.
This project is opened to anyone with the surname or maternal family name McCarty, McCarthy, McCarter, McCartha, etc. that may have roots in this early historic period of southern American history.
Requirements
A Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname. They are of the most interest in cultures where surnames are passed on from father to son like the Y-Chromosome. This project is for males taking a Y-Chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) test. Thus, the individual who tests must be a male who wants to check his direct paternal line (father's father's father's...) with a Y-DNA12, Y-DNA37, Y-DNA67, or Y-DNA111 test and who has one of the surnames listed for the project. Females do not carry their father's Y-DNA. Females who would like to check their father's direct paternal line can have a male relative with his surname order a Y-DNA test. Females can also order an mtDNA test for themselves such as the mtDNAPlus test or the mtFullSequence test and participate in an mtDNA project. Both men and women may take our autosomal Family Finder test to discover recent relationships across all family lines.
Surnames In This Project
McCarta, McCarter, McCartha, McCarthy, McCartney, McCarty