Welcome to the Locey-Losey Y-DNA Project.

My name is Carrie Enroth, and I have been a genealogist for Locey data since 2001. As a result, through much collaborating with other longtime researchers, have found many family groups with various spellings for the Locey surname, but no records, as yet, have been located to absolutely connect these families. With the hopes that DNA testing will assist in crumbling your brick walls, I am excited to be your administrator for this project, and urge you to join me in solving the surname mysteries!

Please join this project if you are a direct descendent, male with the surname of Locey or Losey (and variant spellings).  If you are a male or female cousin or suspected cousin of a Locey or Losey ancestor, you can join too. There are both Y-DNA and a mtDNA haplogroup results pages for this project. 

Please consider volunteering and assist in locating possible candidates to test. Each of you who can't test could also consider contributing financially to those who can. There is some funding to assist. I recommend that anyone wishing to test to consider a 37 marker as this provides a more accurate match.

In order to find DNA matches, a tester needs to allow his DNA to be available to the public. If you select to have your results made public, link your results to Ysearch to allow for matches with other testing companies.

I have started a Locey-Losey DNA email list which is a one-way email list from me to the group for the purpose of disseminating information on the lineages being tested and on various DNA topics as they relate to genealogy. You do not have to be a volunteer for testing to be a part of the Locey-Losey DNA email list. Email me at carrie.enroth@gmail.com if you would like to be included in this e-list.

The success of this website will depend upon contributions of other Locey-Losey, etc. researchers both with participation in the DNA Project and in providing source documentation and family records to assist everyone in understanding the lineage of the various DNA groups posted to this site.

We do wish to respect everyone's privacy, so please do not expect any dates and locations for living persons to be added to this site or the email list. It is also imperative that we post genealogical data that has good documentation to minimize errors. If you share data that is speculative, please clearly state so.

Again, welcome to the group. We hope you enjoy your visit and that you will be the one to provide that missing link we all need!