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Description
Seeking participants with Vilet, Vilett, Villet, Viola, Violet, Violett, Violette, Vylet, Vylit, Vyolet and/or similar surname derivatives worldwide. Kinship to families with known ancestry is not required.
Descendants of François Violet, who settled near Van Buren, Maine in 1789 are encouraged to participate.
On September 16th, 1647, the goldsmith Thomas Violet, a native of Antwerp, Belgium was a prisoner in the Tower of London. His descendants or relatives in France, England may participate.
Descendants of the Violettes of Virginia are also invited. The 1887 obituary of Edward Violette who died in Holden, Missouri reads, in part: ...Before his death, he called to his wife to bring out some relics he had not revealed the history thereof, which had been handed down for generations, consisting of covers and spoons...The spoons are about 200 years old... Over a century later, we know he also passed down another clue to his Colonial Virginia ancestry -- his DNA.
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
Vilet, Vilett, Villett, Viola, Violet, Violett, Violette, Vylet, Vylit, Vyolet