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The Burnett YDNA Project: Breaking Genealogical Brick Walls
Sun, May 19
|Virtual Event
In this webinar, we will walk through how YDNA, combined with genealogical research, can break genealogical brick walls. In addition, we will introduce a new tool being developed for the House of Burnett which can be used by HOB members to help them identify to which Burnett line they belong.
Time & Location
May 19, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Virtual Event
Guests
About the Event
Host: Terry Barwin, House Genealogist, The House of Burnett
YDNA testing is a way to trace paternal ancestry from the present to the past. It can trace the paternal line back thousands of years. The Burnett YDNA Project is using this type of testing to identify the various Burnett paternal lines and trace them back to their origins and early ancestors.
Everyone has two pairs of 23 chromosomes. Only men have a Y chromosome which identifies them as male, and it is this Y chromosome that is the subject of the YDNA test. A man’s Y chromosome is a Treasure Chest, identifying his direct paternal line – meaning the line of his father, his paternal grandfather, his paternal great-grandfather, etc, and contains no information about any of his maternal lines. Because the Y chromosome mutates very slowly it is very useful, not only in identifying the migration path of your direct-line paternal ancestors but it…