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Van Etten Y-DNA

Van Etten, Van Netten, Vanattan & variant paternal lines worldwide
  • 8 members
Administrators
  • Michael StGeorge

About us

20 March 2022

Happy Equinox! Updates were made today to the public site content. The updates reflect changes with the recent addition of Y-111 results for our first member who descends from Christopher Phernetton aka Van Etten. The results establish STR's and the haplogroup R-M269 for descendants of Christopher. More project analysis in the Results tab to come this spring.



12 February 2022

We're hoping to expand the project here a little by reaching out to matches to current project members. Membership is free to qualifying Y-DNA testers with a qualifying surname lineage. Your participation can make an invaluable contribution to ongoing research of any of these family names. Thank you!


11 Feb 2022

Things move slow here, but they are moving. It's been two years since the last news post here. Coming up by April 2022 new test results are expected to post for a Van Etten line that is new to this project - that of Christopher Phernetton, born circa 1797 in Canada whose father was a Dutch immigrant. Phernetton is one of many variant phonetical spellings of Van Etten. Stay tuned.


17 Feb 2020

FTDNA management invited new group project administration today. The project website will be under construction for the next few days as it is up for major revision and refocusing. Results and interpretation of qualifying group members' Y-DNA will be organized in a usable format. Helpful links and other content will be added.


Qualifying project participants are always needed! You may be able to help!

How to qualify for membership to this project:
We are currently only accepting memberships from males who are qualifying candidates for the Y-Chromosome DNA test. Y-chromosome DNA is passed along father to son generation after generation virtually unchanged. So if you are male, you inherited your father's father's father's father's Y-Chromosome going back hundreds of years with very few mutations. Qualifying individuals must therefor be male and trace their direct paternal ancestry to a male ancestor with a project surname. Please click the Surnames link in the left column to view a list of qualifying surnames. If you don't see your name there exactly as you spell it, you might still qualify.

If you do not qualify, but have a cousin, brother, father, uncle or grandfather who qualifies, please invite them to participate. Ask them to sign up with FTDNA to have a swab kit mailed to them for the Y-Chromosome test. Once they have done that they can join this project.Their results might help with your own family history research.