Mayflower DNA:About
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Project summary
The Mayflower DNA Project is using cutting-edge genetic genealogy research based on testing of living descendants of passengers and crew of the Mayflower's 1620 voyage. The project aims to achieve the following goals:
- Help resolve unanswered questions about the ancestry and genealogy of the passengers and crew of the Mayflower
- Create a resource to help modern individuals better understand their connections to Mayflower passengers and crew through genetic genealogy tests
We aim to complete the first phase of the project by the upcoming quadricentennial of the 1620 Mayflower voyage in 2020 (five years from project launch).
Project administrators and contributors
Project administrators are members of the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG). Administrators include:
- Greg Magoon - Greg has been active in bioinformatics related to 'next-gen' Y chromosome sequencing. He has worked as a consultant for Full Genomes Corporation, and currently assists them as a volunteer. He is currently exploring his potential links to several Mayflower ancestors, including Alden, Cooke, Hopkins, Howland, Mullins, Priest, Soule, and Warren, and White. Greg is the creator of this wiki and created the templates and general format used. The also administers the site and other tasks such as paying the bills associated with the site.
- Stephen Parrish - Stephen is also the administrator for the Early New England Colonists DNA Project at FTDNA.
- Raymond Wing - Ray is also a co-administrator for the R-U106 Haplogroup Project and several Mayflower related surname Projects at FTDNA. Ray has been able to document where at least seven of his eight great-grandparents are descended from at least one Mayflower passenger (but none of them through the Y-DNA or mtDNA. There is one that is in his X-DNA ancestry). Ray has crafted almost all of the pages on the site, and is the contact person for individuals with questions, comments, etc. He can be reached after reading the answer to the most common question asked
Website
The Mayflower DNA Project website was launched on November 11, 2015, the 395th anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact.
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