About us
The Dryden DNA Project welcomes all participants. We encourage you to join today!.
We have had many exciting discoveries since our project began and continue to find more answers in our family tree with each new test that is taken.
Participating is an opportunity to uncover information not provided in the paper records, which will help with your research of your family tree. We also discover which family trees are related and where they are all placed on the haplotree. As the project progresses, the results for the various family trees provides information on the evolution of the surname and beyond.
The Y-DNA test tells you about your direct male line, which would be your father, his father, and back in time. You must be male to take this test.
We encourage males to order a Y-DNA test for 37 markers. You can always upgrade later. 67 and 111 marker tests are more thorough, but it is wise to go ahead and order the Big Y test, if possible. With the Big Y you not only get the 111 marker test, but over 600 STRs as well as mapping your SNP haplotree down to your unique SNP variants.
Both males and females may also be interested in learning about their direct female line, which would be their mother, their mother's mother, and back in time. Both men and women inherit mtDNA, although only women pass it on. To explore your direct female line, you would order a mtDNA test. For matches in a genealogical time frame, order the mtDNA Plus test.
Both males and females can order the Family Finder test which gives you matches with genetic cousins on all your ancestral lines but is best used for finding matches within the last five or six generations.
We have had many exciting discoveries since our project began and continue to find more answers in our family tree with each new test that is taken.
Participating is an opportunity to uncover information not provided in the paper records, which will help with your research of your family tree. We also discover which family trees are related and where they are all placed on the haplotree. As the project progresses, the results for the various family trees provides information on the evolution of the surname and beyond.
The Y-DNA test tells you about your direct male line, which would be your father, his father, and back in time. You must be male to take this test.
We encourage males to order a Y-DNA test for 37 markers. You can always upgrade later. 67 and 111 marker tests are more thorough, but it is wise to go ahead and order the Big Y test, if possible. With the Big Y you not only get the 111 marker test, but over 600 STRs as well as mapping your SNP haplotree down to your unique SNP variants.
Both males and females may also be interested in learning about their direct female line, which would be their mother, their mother's mother, and back in time. Both men and women inherit mtDNA, although only women pass it on. To explore your direct female line, you would order a mtDNA test. For matches in a genealogical time frame, order the mtDNA Plus test.
Both males and females can order the Family Finder test which gives you matches with genetic cousins on all your ancestral lines but is best used for finding matches within the last five or six generations.
Also, the works of Leslie Powell Dryden and Henry Francis Dryden are available at Lulu.com.
Leslie's Dryden Family and Descendents Volume I covers the Drydens of Maryland.
Leslie's Dryden Family and Descendents Volume II covers the Drydens of Virginia.
Henry Francis' 1942 genealogy includes insights into the Drydens of Canons Aschby in Northampton, England.