The first tests have been very important, because we had been previously unable to track down any documentary record proving the English origins of one Piggins family in the United States. This family built the famous Piggins automobile. We can now prove, thanks to DNA, that the automobile-making family is directly connected to the main Piggin group.

The data you can see here on the Y-DNA Results page is just the start: it can be interpreted to generate a whole pile of historical information:

• Discover information to help with our family history research
• Discover which family trees are related
• Discover information which may solve research problems, and/or resolve "brick walls" in your research

• Sort out multiple families found in Lincolnshire and western Norfolk
• Confirm or get clues regarding migrations to the United States and Australia
• Confirm suspected events, such as illegitimacy and adoption

• Find mistaken connections in family trees
• Validate family-history research
• Bridge gaps in the paper records
• Explore the connections between Black American and English Piggins families
• Confirm that Piggon and Piggin are surname variants, and discover if we have any connection to the Piggen family of the Netherlands

• Define the major branches within each Piggin tree going back to the origin of the surname
• Discover information about the evolution of the Piggin surname
• Add to existing clues regarding the origin of the surname
• Combine results with research in early records to determine the number of points of origin for the surname

• Preserve DNA results for future research in case any male line becomes extinct
• Discover information about pre-surname origins, for example in Roman times