About us
This project seeks to identify the paternal ancestry of those with the present-day surname Challenger or a variant thereof. It is driven by a focus on the area of Bristol and North Somerset in England in the 18th and earlier centuries, when the same families usually went by the name Challoner. However, we will investigate with equal enthusiasm the name occurring elsewhere. Unsurprisingly, bearers of the name are known to have migrated in the past two centuries from North Somerset to South Wales, London, Co. Durham, Carlisle, Glasgow, Pittsburgh and elsewhere in the USA, and anywhere there was a coalfield. Are you one of these? Please join us!
In Bedminster the name within a known Challenger family has been found recorded as Changl(l)er (and with wilder still variations) and it is noted this is just one letter removed from the more commonly occurring Chandler (for which there is already a Y-DNA project). Likewise Challender, again found in the areas of interest, is just the same one letter removed from Challenger.
Y-DNA testers with any of these names (or variants thereof) will be accepted into this project with the provisos that their information is relevant to its aims and they have also joined any other Y-DNA project which may specifically cater for their name.
The Administrator has twelve years’ experience of analysing Big Y data and will, where feasible, define inter-relationships using both SNPs (based on FTDNA’s own analysis) and STR mutations. The latter will include those determined from STR Panels 6 and 7 data, as made available from Big Y-700 tests.
In Bedminster the name within a known Challenger family has been found recorded as Changl(l)er (and with wilder still variations) and it is noted this is just one letter removed from the more commonly occurring Chandler (for which there is already a Y-DNA project). Likewise Challender, again found in the areas of interest, is just the same one letter removed from Challenger.
Y-DNA testers with any of these names (or variants thereof) will be accepted into this project with the provisos that their information is relevant to its aims and they have also joined any other Y-DNA project which may specifically cater for their name.
The Administrator has twelve years’ experience of analysing Big Y data and will, where feasible, define inter-relationships using both SNPs (based on FTDNA’s own analysis) and STR mutations. The latter will include those determined from STR Panels 6 and 7 data, as made available from Big Y-700 tests.