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Description
This project was established to help people having the Crowl, Crowell, Grauel surnames, along with the many variant spellings of those surnames, find others with the same genetic signature and work together to find their common ancestor and the geographical and genetic origin of their common ancestor.
The surnames included in this project include Crall, Croll, Crull, Crowl, Crowel, Crowell, Chrowl, Grall, Groll, Grile, Crile, Croyle, Graul, Grauel, Grawl, Growel, Khrall, Krall, Kroll and any other similar spelling.
Due to the wide variation in spelling, these families have often been difficult to trace using traditional genealogy research methods. This site hopes to resolve some of those problems using genetic genealogy as a tool to assist researchers.
Our first success occurred on July 1, 2004, when we found a relationship between two families whose surnames had different spellings: (1) Peter CRAUL, first found in Mecklenburg Co, NC in 1762 and (2) Johan Michael GRAUEL of Langenselbold, Hesse, Germany, first found in Straban Twp., York Co., PA in 1778, with Peter appearing to be the elder brother of Johan Michael. Slightly over a year later in October 2005 we found a relationship between the GRAUELS of Langenselbold, Hesse, Germany and the CROWLS of Jefferson and Berkeley Counties, VA/WV, who initially appeared in the US after 1863.
We are now using YDNA genetic data from participants to establish family groups consisting of individuals with surnames of various spellings, thereby uniting researchers hunting for more information on their ancestral lines and their common ancestor.
Our project administrators are all volunteers familiar with genealogical research of their own families and the connection of these surnames in those families and other families they have encountered. Gail Komar began writing "Crowl Connections" in 1985 as a way to bring together researchers, but retired from that in 2009 after 25 years. Andrea Crowell is our resident expert on the English Crowells. Bob and Robert Crull and Les Tate, whose wife is a German Crowell/Grauel descendant, complete our data manipulation and website maintenance and improvement team.
This site owes much to Gail Komar's website at www.CrowlConnections.org and her outstanding quarter-century of work.
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
Chrowl, Crall, Crile, Croel, Croll, Crowel, Crowell, Crowl, Croyle, Crull, Grall, Grauel, Graul, Grawl, Grile, Growall, Growell, Krahl, Krall, Kroll