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The Van Norman (etc.) Y-DNA Project Results
         
Last updated: 2 Aug 2008  
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You will notice that a lot of the numbers between the three sets of tests do not match! This indicates that we have three different ancestors represented in the results. Because we have so few results at the moment, there are several interpretations at this time.
   
The first possibility is that there are more than one Van Norman (etc.) ancestors that we descend from, who were not originally related. This is plausible because the very origins of the name "Van Arnhem" indicate that the original ancestor came from (or "Van") the Town of Arnhem in the Netherlands. Naturally there was likely more than one person from that town who came to North America in the earlier years.
   
Another possibility is that one or two of the lines trace back to an original Van Norman (etc.) immigrant, and the other one or two lines are the result of one of the anomalies that we talked about earlier -- Adoption, Illegitimacy, and Infidelity, etc.
   
As additional participant's results are added to our database, we will be able to get a better idea of what situations we are dealing with.
   
i.e. Are the New Jersey Van Normans descendants of a different line than the New York families? Are the Pennsylvania crowd related to the New Jersey or the New York lines? - Or both? -- Or neither?? Etc., Etc.
   
As we stated at the start of this project, the rewards are not going to come overnight, but will benefit researchers of the Van Norman surname over the long haul. Naturally we had hoped for more definitive results, but it was not to be!
   
Here is a brief outline of what the charts do tell us.
   
1) If all the numbers were identical, except for perhaps one or two, we would consider these people to be all descendants from a common ancestor, within a few hundred years or so. The DYS numbers in red tend to mutate or change faster than the ones in black, so these numbers are usually the ones to watch for. It is these mutations however, which might help us determine which line a particular Van Norman ancestor might connect to, when we are trying to knock down a brick wall in our research, assuming the mutation took place a few generations back, and is not a recent occurrence.
   
2) Listed on the chart is a Haplogroup that is predicted for each participant. These are generalizations used to "track" the various routes of migration of our early ancestors after they travelled out of Africa many thousands of years ago. While the actual results can be much more detailed, depending on the line, a general rule of thumb indicates that R1b lines are from Western Europe and R1a lines are from Eastern Europe. (There are many more categories than just those two as well.) The Genographic Project is a large study currently underway using this information to determine how humankind populated the earth. For more details go to www.nationalgeographic.com and click on the icon near the bottom left hand side of the page.
   
More to follow at a later date,
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Kit: 122502 122864 121451    
Earliest Known Origin: New York  New Jersey  New York     
*Haplo R1b R1b1 R1a1    
DYS#          
393 13 13 13    
390 23 24 26    
19 14 14 15    
391 11 11 10    
385a 11 11 11    
385b 14 11 14    
426 12 12 12    
388 12 12 12    
439 11 13 10    
389|1 13 13 14    
392 13 13 11    
389|2 29 29 31    
458 17 17 15    
459a 9 9 9    
459b 10 10 10    
455 11 11 11    
454 11 11 11    
447 24 25 24    
437 15 14 14    
448 19 19 20    
449 29 29 33    
464a 15 15 12    
464b 16 17 15    
464c 17 17 15    
464d 17 17 16    
460 11 11 11    
GATA H4 11 10 10    
YCA II a 19 19 19    
YCA II b 23 23 23    
456 15 16 15    
607 16 15 16    
576 17 20 17    
570 19 17 19    
CDY a 35 35 36    
CDY b 37 37 41    
442 12 12 12    
438 12 12 11    
531          
578          
395S1a          
395S1b          
590          
537          
641          
472          
406S1          
511          
425          
413a          
413b          
557          
594          
436          
490          
534          
450          
444          
481          
520          
446          
617          
568          
487          
572          
640          
492          
565          

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