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Description
The Bentley Family Project seeks to find common heritage through sharing of information and dna testing. The original Bentley Family Project separated YDNA through subgrouping of Families through assignment of letters and numbers. As new Administrators we will attempt to continue this to some extent. We are still researching the thought behind that process. Please email us if you can offer help on that. We might rename the subgroups and reshape. We will attempt to make daughter lines.
Requirements
A Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname. They are of the most interest in cultures where surnames are passed on from father to son like the Y-Chromosome. This project is for males taking a Y-Chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) test. Thus, the individual who tests must be a male who wants to check his direct paternal line (father's father's father's...) with a Y-DNA12, Y-DNA37, Y-DNA67, or Y-DNA111 test and who has one of the surnames listed for the project. Females do not carry their father's Y-DNA. Females who would like to check their father's direct paternal line can have a male relative with his surname order a Y-DNA test. Females can also order an mtDNA test for themselves such as the mtDNAPlus test or the mtFullSequence test and participate in an mtDNA project. Both men and women may take our autosomal Family Finder test to discover recent relationships across all family lines.
Surnames In This Project
Ball, Beasley, Bentley, Bently, Black, Buncombe County, Chapman, Chowanoak, Davis, Deboard, DeBoarde, Debord, Deborde, Freeman, Hackney, Harrison, Howard, Hutchinson, Irdell, Ivey, Ivie, McClathcie, McComas, Mclathcie, mtDNA, North Carolina, Obourne, Osborne, Outlaw, Price, QM3, Reynolds, Rhodes, Rowan County, Stancil, Tabitha, Thompason, Twomey, Whiticker, Wood, yDNA