STEELE, STEEL, STEHL, and any other reasonable spellingvariations are welcome to join the project. 

STEELE DNA Project includes YDNA, mtDNA.

We plan to include information on family lines andautosomal  DNA if members find thatuseful.

 

When you request to join PLEASE send the followinginformation to jabbott@stny.rr.com

 

1. Earliest known paper documented Steele ancestor

2. Lineage from earliest known Steele ancestor

While a surname itself may give us incomplete or misleading or, at best, only general information about the origin of a family, DNA-testing can give us concrete evidence for identifying and separating family lines. Y-chromosome DNA testing is especially helpful because the male Y-chromosome is handed down, father to son, unchanged through the generations, except for rare mutations which, in themselves, can be helpful indicators of branching. The accessibility and affordability of family DNA testing is doubtless the greatest technical advance in the history of genealogical research because -- at long, long last -- we have a tool to break down those brick walls!