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- Use Y-DNA testing of current male-line Girdlestones to establish how today's branches relate to one another.
- Build a DNA framework across the whole Girdlestone family, so new testers can quickly see which branch they're closest to.
- Now that we have testers across every major branch, recruit second testers from closer to each one — ideally descending from a different son or grandson of the same 17th- or 18th-century ancestor — to pinpoint exactly where and when each branch split.
- Encourage autosomal (Family Finder) testing and free transfers from other companies as a complementary tool, particularly for confirming closer relationships along female lines that Y-DNA can't reach.
- Help Girdlestone descendants who've hit a brick wall in their paper research find out which branch they belong to via DNA.
- Learn more about the earliest Girdlestones of the 16th century and earlier, and how their ancestors came to be in Britain in the first place.