Y-DNA - Male Test used with genealogy: Hulin family (General)

by Richard Hulan , Thursday, November 24, 2011, 19:49 (4751 days ago) @ admin

Replying specifically to this request: "If you have results of Y-DNA - Male Tests please send them to me as I shortly intend to add a DNA section to our website..."

I'm co-administrator of a small Y-DNA surname project for a Hulin family that was established in Virginia and North Carolina at least by the 1660s, and probably earlier. (It's hard to prove anything that early, as the surviving records of our southern colonies are spotty; and the spelling of this surname differs from one document to the next.) Anyway, some of us are beginning to have DNA tests, some of us match, and the consensus is growing that there is one pretty stable lineage, within haplogroup R1b, the defining SNPs (so far) being P312+ and Z196+. At the moment the ISOGG haplotree is calling this group R1b1a2a1a1b2* (but this terminology changes, as new SNPs are discovered, so it may not be valid when someone reads this post at a date later than November 2011). Here is a link to our project:

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Hul_n_/default.aspx

The only British member of the family yet to be tested (Donald Hulin of Clevedon, Somerset) doesn't match our baseline (kit #195834 and similar results); but it seems possible that he actually has a direct paternal ancestor of the Scott family. If you look at the Y-DNA Results page in the project I have linked, Don is kit #195838. We would like to find some other male member(s) of the Forest of Dean Hulin family -- preferably not a very close relative of Don's -- who could be tested, as a check on that question. The company through which we are testing, Family Tree DNA, has a sale in progress (through Dec. 31, 2011) so it's currently less expensive than usual to be tested, if one does so through an FTDNA project such as ours. We recommend 37 marker tests.

If a "Forest of Dean Surnames" project is established by participants in this forum, and the testing is done at a company other than FTDNA, you may still access our public project results and see whether our baseline markers do, or don't, match those found among the Hulins from St. Briavels or Awre.