Joining the Blanton Surname Project at Ancestry
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In reply to:
DNA Testing for Blanton Males
Robert Stafford 10/08/13
Anyone interested in Blanton DNA can join our project at Ancestry. This is the join page:
http://groups.ancestry.com/site/35404164/http://groups.ancestry.com/site/35404164/
You can also contact Jenelle Blanton-Wilcox from this page:
http://blantonfamilydna.webs.com/contactus.htmhttp://blantonfamilydna.webs.com/contactus.htm.
If you have tested at Ancestry, your Y-DNA results will appear on our project site after you join. If you tested at FTDNA, you will need to upload your results. Ancestry has a template which lets you enter the results in FTDNA order and converts the markers which have different nomenclatures. These are the corrections it makes:
37-Marker Test:
Y-GATA-H4: Adds 1 to FTDNA's value.
DYS442: Adds 5 to FTDNA's value.
Markers 38-67:
DYS441: Adds 1 to FTDNA's value.
Y-GATA-A10: Adds 2 to FTDNA's value.
If you test, you may want to see if your results closely match other Blantons before makiing them available to others by joining the project. There is a small chance of a non-paternal event (NPE), which you may want to investigate first. Ancestry lets you search for close matches.
We request that anyone who tests and wants to join send me their paternal lineage as far back as possible, so that we can document the father-son relationships. Click on my name above for my email. It is also on the contact page above.
I just need a bare-bones lineage with the birth/death dates and locations. Migrations and, at least, the wives' first names are helpful for finding ancestors in the all-name censuses. I have most of the Blanton public records before 1850 and the 1850-1940 censuses, but any family documents, such as Bibles or letters, showing the father-son relationships are helpful.