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VA-1600s (yDNA)

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About us

The VA-1600 project was established to focus on the early Virginia families. This project is for Paternal (yDNA) participants.

APPLICANT MUST BE ABLE TO DOCUMENT PATERNAL ANCESTOR'S RESIDENCE IN ORIGINAL VIRGINIA SHIRES PRIOR TO 1700 AND MUST LIST THAT ANCESTOR IN HIS JOIN REQUEST. IF YOU CANNOT DO THIS, PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST TO JOIN!.



IN ORDER FOR YOUR JOIN REQUEST TO BE APPROVED< YOU MUST PROVIDE THE PATERNAL LINE (fathers father's ... father's line) FOR THE MAN BEING TESTED TO HIS MALE ANCESTOR WHO LIVED IN VIRGINIA PRIOR TO 1700. .

We welcome all direct line male descendants who trace their line back to Virginia in the 1600s. (There is a separate project for Maternal (mtDNA) ancestry.