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Leonard

  • 242 members

About us

The purpose of the Leonard Surname Project is to provide a public forum to support the genealogical research and interests of members with Leonard (Lennard, Lenard, etc.) ancestries, a public site where members share and compare their Y-DNA test results, ancestry information and family trees with other members who join this public project. The project is not intended for medical or any related purposes.

By joining the project, you agree that your Y-DNA haplogroup, STR and SNP results and early ancestor information will be visible to project members.  Our project is set so Mitochondrial DNA test results are only visible to project members.  Autosomal DNA results are not visible to the public.

Project members are expected to post earliest known ancestry information that has been verified through historical records. Project administrators may recommend edits or removal of information that lacks historical verification or is based upon speculative family trees posted by others. This is to avoid others from adopting what may erroneous information. 

Project Administrators and Assistants are not FTDNA employees, they are genetic genealogy volunteers.
They do not receive any form of financial payment or any other incentive or reimbursement for their work.  Project administrators are responsible for the content on the project websites.  

Organization of DNA kits into subgroups and naming of those groups is done by project administrators after analyzing the comparative results.  Placement of DNA kits within the subgroups is dictated by FTDNA STR mutation programming and cannot be altered by project administrators.  Project administrators have indicated the primary haplogroup branch and SNPs in the subgroup titles, where applicable, and have activated the SNP RESULTS display page.

While a surname itself may give us incomplete or misleading or, at best, only general information about the origin of a family, DNA-testing can give us concrete evidence for identifying and separating family lines. Y-chromosome DNA testing is especially helpful because the male Y-chromosome is handed down, father to son, unchanged through the generations, except for rare mutations which, in themselves, can be helpful indicators of branching. The accessibility and affordability of family DNA testing is doubtless the greatest technical advance in the history of genealogical research because -- at long, long last -- we have a tool to break down those brick walls!