Goals:

• To assist genealogists in coordinating genetic research with traditional documentary research.

• To determine if all Stackhouse families are related, or if the name has several entirely different origins.

• To help Stackhouse family researchers break down long standing brick walls through the use of DNA analysis. In combination with traditional family research, DNA analysis can allow us to quickly map the links that tie our families together and discover more about our own family histories.

• To identify the DNA of "The Ancestor Families" and compile them and their lost branches into distinct genetic lineages through DNA matches.

• The Stackhouse Project was started with the original goal of determining if there was just one Stackhouse family in the United States, or several that were completely unrelated. The Project would also like to link United Kingdom Stackhouses with American Stackhouses, as well as Stackhouses all over the world.

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Note: There is another project for the surnames of
Stockhaeuser, Stockhaus, Stockhause, Stockhausen, Stockheuser, Stockhusen, von Stockhausen
located at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Stockhausen/default.aspx

Please contact the project administrator if you are not sure which project to join!
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If you want more information about your direct male line, you must be male, or find a male in your family tree such as your brother or father to participate. For the male, the direct male line would be his father, his father's father, and so forth back in time. The male would order a Y DNA test.

Taking a Y DNA test is an opportunity to discover information on three levels:

- Genealogical
- Surname
- Anthropological

The primary use of Genetic Genealogy testing is to provide information which cannot be found in the paper records to help you with your genealogy research. The applications of DNA testing for genealogy are as diverse as the problems that can be encountered in your research. For example, perhaps you are trying to bridge the gap of destroyed records, or trying to sort out multiple families with the same surname in a location. Perhaps you have encountered a brick wall, or can not make a connection to the ancestral homeland.

Once you take a Y-DNA test, you will be able to determine which other family trees with your surname are related to you.

DNA testing for genealogy is a tremendous opportunity to uncover information not found in the paper records, to provide information to help you with your genealogy research, to contribute to the knowledge about your surname, and to learn about your distant origins.