Conant (Y-DNA)

Status summary

Completed as of October 1, 2020:

• Recruiting additional direct male-line Joshua Conant descendants for further SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact Raymond T. Wing (email: wing.genealogist AT gmail DOT com)
• Y-SNP predicted to fall under R1b-M269

Still to do as of October 1, 2020

• NGS/WGS test multiple descendants of Roger Conant (preferably through his son Joshua) to firmly place family clade as well as test descendants to discover any subclades unique to descendants lines

Biography

First Generation

Joshua Conant

They had children;

DNA results R1b-M269

Previous Y-DNA testing

The Conant Family Tree DNA Project Subgroup: "Haplogroup R1b - Lineage 3A (R-U152>L2>DF103>FGC4166>BY123080>FT31290)" lists 14 individuals (all STR matching each other). While only one of these individuals states their Most Distant Known Paternal Ancestor (MDKPA) was Phineas Pratt others list known close relatives of Phineas as their MDKPA. Two individuals have apparently taken the Big Y-700 test and they are assigned to the following Haplogroup: P312>>U152>L2>DF103>FGC4166>BY123080 >FT31290>FT29156>>FT137491.

Further needed testing

We need additional direct male-line descendants of Joshua Conant to WGS/NGS test to both confirm this prediction as well as to refine the haplogroup further and delineate descendant clades.