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Braswell DNA Project
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The Braswell DNA Project will perform the Y-DNA Test on men
with the Braswell surname or bloodline. This is an independent project sponsored
by Carey Bracewell and Keith Braswell.
Join this
project for only 99.00 as a group rate.
MISSION STATEMENT.
Our first group objective {using the 25-Marker test} is to determine who
descends from Rev. Robert Bracewell (1611-1668) and who doesn't. That
discovered, individuals or groups may elect to run other tests such as the MRCA--Most Recent Common Ancestor--to
perhaps sort out some unexpectedly close cousinship with another Braswell.
PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY. We will follow
FamilyTreeDNA's example in this area. At no time we give out publicly your
locator number {that number on your collection tube} matched with your name.
REPORTING.
After first insuring that everyone's privacy is protected, we will
not delay reporting any Braswell group reports that come in.
This study may help answer these questions:
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How many different
common male ancestors are associated with the Braswell surname?
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How are your
Braswell ancestors related to other families with the Braswell surname?
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How are the
different Braswell family lines related?
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Are all Braswell
from an ancestral country related, or are there many different families with
the name Braswell?
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Which Braswell researchers should be
collaborating because they share a common ancestor?
An analysis of the mutations in the
Y-chromosome can also be used to estimate the "Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA)"
in terms of number of generations since the separation occurred.
If your Braswell research has hit a “stone
wall”, DNA analysis could be the break through you have been looking for, to
push your Braswell genealogy research back generations, by finding connections
to other Braswell family Lines.
BACKGROUND OF
GENETIC GENEALOGY
There are two types of DNA tests now available
for genealogical testing: the Y-chromosome (Y-DNA) test and the mitochondrial (mtDNA)
test. A direct female line can be traced by testing mitochondrial DNA. However,
since we are presently interested in tracing surnames, which are usually passed
from father to son, the testing of the Y-chromosome DNA is what we are
interested in. For more information on DNA and Y-chromosome testing see
http://blairgenealogy.com/dna/dna101.html
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