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WELCOME TO THE WHITLEY/WHEATLEY DNA PROJECT

My name is Linda Wheatley Stockdale and I am the administrator of the Whitley/Wheatley DNA Project, along with Terry Barton of World Families.  I have been researching my Wheatley genealogy since 1987.  In 2006, I decided that my “brick wall” would never be overcome by using only traditional genealogical research and so I became interested in yDNA testing as an additional genealogical tool.

DNA testing is easy.  You must be a male with the surname Whitley, Wheatley, or any other variant spelling of the name, to participate.  If you are a female interested in testing your family line, you will need to recruit a Whitley or Wheatley male relative to take the test.  This is a link to a You Tube video showing how to take a Family Tree DNA test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN07Adup7Bs

What’s in it for you?  Your membership in the Whitley/Wheatley DNA Project provides:

• A report of your Y-DNA, which is very close, and sometimes identical, to the Y-DNA of your earliest known ancestor.

• Your “deep” ancestry (Haplogroup), which identifies your paternal ancestor’s prehistoric origins.

• A chance to compare your genetic ancestry with those of your surname and the spelling variations.

• Leads for further research.

• Information to help you determine if your Whitley/Wheatley line does not match another Whitley/Wheatley line, which will help you avoid spending much time and money attempting to connect to that line.

• A renewed interest in traditional paper genealogy and sharing of information with your genetic cousins.

• Your genetic matches who do not share your surname.

Testing will be conducted by Family Tree DNA, the world’s leading testing company for DNA surname projects.  Your test kit will be mailed to you and you will mail your sample to Family Tree DNA in a padded envelope provided in the kit.  You save money by joining a surname project.  These are the discounted prices:

12-marker test $99

25-marker test $124

37-marker test $149

67-marker test $238

111-marker test $339

DNA testing should always go hand in hand with traditional genealogical research because DNA tests do not indicate how two males who share a common ancestor are related to each other.

Goals of the Project:

• To identify how the participant’s Whitley/Wheatley ancestors are related to other families with the same surname, both genetically and through paper trails.

• To help researchers from related families work together because they share a common ancestor, hopefully enabling them to trace back more generations than they could using traditional genealogical methods alone.

• To ultimately catalog pedigrees and genetic connections of all the known project families and to trace the ancestry of these families back as far as records will permit in their country of origin.

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