The Isaac Cummings Family Y-DNA Project is designed to assist families descending from the early Massachusetts settler Isaac Cummings prove and clarify their genetic connections to him and his male descendants.

Isaac Cummings was born in 1601, in Mistley, Essex, England.  He arrived in New England in the fall of 1635,and he died at Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, in 1677.

The initiative is an educational program of the Isaac Cummings Family Association (ICFA), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit genealogy organization created in 1996 by a small group of Isaac Cummings’ descendants.

To learn more about Isaac’s history and ICFA, including how to become a member, please visit www.isaaccummingsfamily.org.