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Description
If you are a Peer, Pier, Pear, Lapeer, LaPierre, Pierre, Pierron, Pion, Birnbaum, or Peers, Pearce, Pierce, Speer, we invite you to join this project and participate in a study to help sort out the various Peer families.
Please order your kit, join and sign in to the project page, provide us with information on how to contact you by email, and share your known Peer lineage so that we can help show you what group you belong to.
The test that we are recommending for all study participants is at minimum, the 37 marker Y-DNA test. You can always upgrade later to 67 or 111 markers (we recommend for everyone to eventually upgrade to 111 markers).
The testing can only be done on males with the Peer/Pier last name because it is looking at the direct paternal line (fathers, fathers, fathers, etc...) data only. A woman can participate in this Y-chromosome test by paying for (or convincing) a male Peer relative to take the test.
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
Birnbaum, La Pira, Lapear, Lapeer, Lapier, Lapierre, Lapion, Napier, Pear, Pearce, Pearcey, Pearman, Peer, Peers, Pera, Percy, Peres, Perrier, Pier, Pierce, Pierre, Pierron, Piers, Pion, Piras, Pirner, Poir, Poirier, Speer, Speers, Spier