Ever since Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at the Oxford University, published his land mark paper, Surnames and the Y-Chromosome in 2000, the question is how are the Sikes/Sykes emigrants that came to America in the 1600’s related to these English Sykes’s. There are at least three documented early Sykes families in America in the 1600’s, John Sikes of Virginia, arrived about 1636, Richard Sikes of Massachusetts, arrived about 1639, and Bernard Sykes who arrived in Virginia about 1660. The other obvious question is how are these three early Sikes emigrants related to each other if at all? This has been partly answered; these families make up three of the five Sikes/Sykes groups found so far.

Visit the Sikes/Sykes Families Association web site for links to several Sykes related papers on Sykes DNA studies.

https://sikes-sykes-families-association.org/