Our Aldridge Group Project currently has 66 members participating in various levels of DNA testing with FTDNA. Through these tests we have found two prominent and very separate Aldridge lineages:

 

* Multiple lines documented to descend from the Aldridges in Randolph County, North Carolina, match each other, and match a separate descendant of Nicholas Aldridge of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, indicating that this lineage, of haplogroup R1b-U106, is the line from Nicholas Aldridge.

* Another Aldridge lineage, completely separate, of haplogroup I-M223, does not match the Nicholas Aldridge, despite many descendants claiming this ancestry. At least three different families match. Their common ancestor is unclear.

According to geneticists, the I haplogroups and the R haplogroups have not shared a common ancestor in about 50,000 years.

Our goals are:

• Through Y-DNA, to trace and document all paternal lineages with names Aldridge, Alldridge, Alldredge, and other variants, in the United States, Great Britain, and worldwide.

• To help Aldridge descendants identify and connect to their ancestors, and connect as many related families together as possible.

• To aid researchers in breaking through genealogical brick walls through the use of DNA research.