About us
Goals of the Project:
What's in it for you? Your membership in the Holland DNA Project provides:
- To connect with Holland researchers in other countries.
- To identify how the participant's Holland ancestors are related to other families with the same surname, both genetically and through paper trails.
- To help researchers from related families work together because they share a common ancestor, hopefully enabling them to trace back more generations than they could using traditional genealogical methods alone.
- To find common ancestors for each lineage group within the project.
- To create a Holland Genealogy collection by cataloging family trees and genetic connections of all the known project families and to trace the ancestry of these families back as far as records will permit in their country of origin.
What's in it for you? Your membership in the Holland DNA Project provides:
- A report of your Y-DNA which is very close, and sometimes identical, to the Y-DNA of your earliest known ancestor.
- Your "deep" ancestry (Haplogroup) which identifies your paternal ancestor's prehistoric origins.
- A chance to compare your genetic ancestry with those of your surname and the spelling variations.
- Leads for further research.
- Information to help you determine if your Holland line does match another Holland line, which will help you avoid spending much time and money attempting to connect to that line.
- A renewed interest in traditional paper genealogy and sharing of information with your genetic cousins.
- Your genetic matches who do not share your surname.