WOODALL DNA PROJECT NEWS:

We now have a total of over one hundred thirty-three (133) Y-DNA kits with results after being analyzed at the lab. We are still waiting for the results for additional Y-DNA kits. The results to date are very interesting indicating more Y-DNA testing is needed to better understand the Woodall surname families.

Here's a little of what we have learned so far: 

1. We have learned one Woodall family group is fathered by an American Indian or someone with a direct male line to an American Indian.

2.  It is evident from the test results that one or both of the sons William and John, who we thought were sons of John Woodall (1747 Will in Goochland County, Virginia) are not his biological sons, since descendants from both of these 2 men show two different Haplogoup types. One or both of these men may have been adopted by Genitoe Creek's Goochland John.  

3.  We have two different Woodall family groups with each mothered by a Woodall but had a father with another surname:                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

1st we discovered that a Diana Woodall had a son named James Duncan Woodall b. about 1896 in Johnson County, North Carolina. James Duncan Woodall was fathered by a Seamore Duncan. Then we learned that a Mary Ann Woodall born 1810-1813 in Lincoln, Kentucky had one son James L. Woodall b. 1839 in Lawrence, Indiana (and possibly her other children) fathered by a man with the surname Ketchum. Mary Ann is the daughter of Jehu Woodall and Sarah Foster.     

4. Test results prove there is an O'Dell-Woodall connection. Most recently we have the results of a man with the last name Udall who matches a Yorkshire Woodall family. This particular Udall family and Woodall family all go back to the ancient Woodall family who spelled their last name as Uvedale/Uvedale. These people also distantly share the famous Barber-Surgeon John Woodall as a cousin.  

Based on the results received to date, we have identified 24 different Woodall families, with 23 distinctly different Y-DNA Patterns, and 15 different Haplogroups. These Haplogroups in no particular order being R-M512, R-CTS3402, R-M198, J-M172, RD-F41, E-M2, R-M269, I-M253, I-P37, Q-M3, R-P25, R-P312, R-PH3519, R-SRY10831, I-P109.                                                               

43 Participants trace their family back to England, 22 have Scotland as their place of origin, 55 have their family going back to somewhere in the United States, and 12 have their roots as Native American in the United States. 

The testing to date has confirmed, for the most part, the hard work of Woodall family researchers of the over the last 40+ years. However, there are to date at least five cases where the paper trail generated by research has NOT been confirmed by DNA. This indicates one should not feel comfortable with that well defined paper trail connecting one to a  great-great grandfather Woodall unless one has DNA test results to confirm it. Not using this new DNA tool is like saying I am not going to order that birth certificate or death certificate because I known the data I have is correct. Use this new tool as one more data point to confirm your paper trail.  

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