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Here are some of the mysteries we hope to investigate with Y-Chromosome DNA testing.
To answer these questions, we need several males from each branch of the family to guard against unsuspected anomalies like lost generations in the genealogical record, adoption, and erroneous paternity. Please spread the word. If you select the Y-25 test, your DNA results may help solve more than one of these puzzles.
1. Are all Pidcocks/Pitcocks/Pidcoes/Piddocks descended from a common ancestor from the Bakewell & Matlock area, Derbyshire, England?
Minimal Test: 12 marker Y DNA kit.
Supplemental Information: Location where your most distant ancestor lived
2. Are Pidcocks/Pitcocks/Pidcoes/Piddocks of Scots-Irish descent?
Minimal Test: 12 marker Y DNA kit, see Haplogroup.
Supplemental Information: Location where your most distant ancestor lived
3. In the late 17th and early 18th century in the American colonies there is mention of George Pidcock in Maine and William, John, Emanuel, Benjamin and Robert in the Buck Co, PA and across the Delaware, in Hunterdon & Burlington Co. NJ area. Are these individuals related?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA kit.
Supplemental Information: Which of these 6 individuals is your immigrant ancestor?
4. Can we recognize, genetically, different migrations of our family, trace their paths and help modern day PIDCOCKS / PITCOCKS / PIDCOES / PIDDOCKS and similar surnamed individuals place themselves in our family tree?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA kit, may choose to upgrade to 37 later
Supplemental Information: Your patrilineal pedigree, as far back as you can go on.
5. Jonathan Pidcock (1729-1812) married Anky. Was Anky a Lenape Indian?
They had two daughters: Phoebe who married Kitchen and Charity who married Pittinger.
Minimal Test: mitachondrial DNA kit
Supplemental Information: Your matrilineal pedigree (your mother back to Phoebe Kitchen (born Oct 8, 1759) or Charity Pittinger (born about 1760))
6. Your personal family puzzle.Submit additional Pidcock / Pitcock / Pidcoe / Piddock mysteries to the project coordinator for listing on this page.
To answer these questions, we need several males from each branch of the family to guard against unsuspected anomalies like lost generations in the genealogical record, adoption, and erroneous paternity. Please spread the word. If you select the Y-25 test, your DNA results may help solve more than one of these puzzles.
1. Are all Pidcocks/Pitcocks/Pidcoes/Piddocks descended from a common ancestor from the Bakewell & Matlock area, Derbyshire, England?
Minimal Test: 12 marker Y DNA kit.
Supplemental Information: Location where your most distant ancestor lived
2. Are Pidcocks/Pitcocks/Pidcoes/Piddocks of Scots-Irish descent?
Minimal Test: 12 marker Y DNA kit, see Haplogroup.
Supplemental Information: Location where your most distant ancestor lived
3. In the late 17th and early 18th century in the American colonies there is mention of George Pidcock in Maine and William, John, Emanuel, Benjamin and Robert in the Buck Co, PA and across the Delaware, in Hunterdon & Burlington Co. NJ area. Are these individuals related?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA kit.
Supplemental Information: Which of these 6 individuals is your immigrant ancestor?
4. Can we recognize, genetically, different migrations of our family, trace their paths and help modern day PIDCOCKS / PITCOCKS / PIDCOES / PIDDOCKS and similar surnamed individuals place themselves in our family tree?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA kit, may choose to upgrade to 37 later
Supplemental Information: Your patrilineal pedigree, as far back as you can go on.
5. Jonathan Pidcock (1729-1812) married Anky. Was Anky a Lenape Indian?
They had two daughters: Phoebe who married Kitchen and Charity who married Pittinger.
Minimal Test: mitachondrial DNA kit
Supplemental Information: Your matrilineal pedigree (your mother back to Phoebe Kitchen (born Oct 8, 1759) or Charity Pittinger (born about 1760))
6. Your personal family puzzle.Submit additional Pidcock / Pitcock / Pidcoe / Piddock mysteries to the project coordinator for listing on this page.