About us
The, "McCarty's of Edgefield, South Carolina Y-DNA Project" was developed after fifteen years of genealogy research on early McCarty families around Edgefield and Saluda, South Carolina failed to show definitive a relationship among many of these McCarty, McCarthy, McCartney, McCarter groups.
There were a multitude of stories and theories as to relationships between McCarty ancestors and their descendants. Many theories cannot be proven using present day genealogical research.
It was believed that Y-DNA testing of male McCarty descendants that had ancestors in the Edgefield, South Carolina area would help in identifying these ancestral relationships.
To that extent, the project was successful. However, as questions were answered and families isolated, new questions emerged. Maternal lines connected to the male McCarty lines needed a source for some hope of answers through Mt-DNA. Others, not of the McCarty surname, also began to join the project in search of a possible connections.
With each of these questions, we search for further answers to our genealogy.
There were a multitude of stories and theories as to relationships between McCarty ancestors and their descendants. Many theories cannot be proven using present day genealogical research.
It was believed that Y-DNA testing of male McCarty descendants that had ancestors in the Edgefield, South Carolina area would help in identifying these ancestral relationships.
To that extent, the project was successful. However, as questions were answered and families isolated, new questions emerged. Maternal lines connected to the male McCarty lines needed a source for some hope of answers through Mt-DNA. Others, not of the McCarty surname, also began to join the project in search of a possible connections.
With each of these questions, we search for further answers to our genealogy.