There are to main goals of this project:

The first is to further refine the different downstream (more recent) “branches and twigs” SNPs of the Y19847 tree spanning all the way to the modern day, allowing members to correlate their own “paper trail” genealogies with their close genetic cousins. This includes two of the members of the group who have paper trails back to two famous Rabbinical lines, Meir of Rothenburg (ca 1200 C.E. of Worms, Rhineland-Pfalz) and Samson Wertheimer (ca 1650 C.E. of Worms, Rhineland-Pfalz). 

The second is to focus on the older, more upstream (more ancient) “trunk” SNPs of the Y19847 tree, comparing them to both our sister haplogroups in modern day Lebanese Druze, Armenians, Arabs, and Chuvash, as well as the ever growing body of ancient DNA samples from archaeological sites, in order to help place the ancient origin of our paternal ancestors into a broader, historical context.

We hope to find additional men that have established paper trails and/or who might be willing to have advanced DNA testing.