Steady progress is being made in our quest to use genetic genealogy as a means of confirming paper records back to our earliest known ancestor and brick wall, one Baldwin Lunsford (abt 1764). Since little is known about Baldwin's ancestry (hence the brick wall moniker), it is hoped that by determining his Y-chromosome haplogroup together with a diagnostic SNP for our clan we may someday be able to connect with other Lun(ce)sford clans in the US and abroad.
Just this week we received new STR profiles for two matching fourth cousins. To date our collective results suggest strongly that there has been unbroken paternal surname inheritance in our lineage back to Baldwin's son Benjamin Lunsford (abt 1793).
If you are a Lun(ce)sford male with previous Y-chromosome test results, or are interested in family genealogy and would like to learn more about genetic genealogy, please send an email to the project administrator at: lungen@myactv.net . Minimum requirements for STR testing are the Family Tree DNA Y37 test or the alpha and beta panels from YSEQ labs. Or, if you've had any full sequencing of the Y-chromosome or more detailed SNP panels conducted we would be especially interested in talking with you.
Currently our clan is placed in the I1 haplogroup with a public terminal SNP S2077.
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