This Project Welcomes all Ridenour, Ritenour, Reidenauer, Ritenour, Ridenhour, and all other various spellings of this surname. Are you wondering if you are related? Have you hit a brick wall and can't find any further documentation to help you find your families ancestors? Maybe you have just started your research, or you may even be one of the lucky ones that have been able to find documentation that goes back into the 1500's. By joining this Y-DNA project of Genealogy by Genetics you will be able to help yourself and other researchers find genetic cousins and then help each other with your paper documentation. There is a great deal of Ridenour information in libraries and on the web,and Y-DNA testing is a new and valuable resource to add to your family research. So the question is; are we related?