Crow DNA Project on FTDNA

Welcome to my blog. If you are interested in your family history, you are in the right spot. I am the co-administrator for the Crow Y-DNA project on FTDNA. We have 19 unique Crow/Crowe family groups identified worldwide. I am part of the Gold group. My interest is finding and identifying each Crow family to place them in our project. If you are a male, or have a male to test their Y-DNA, then please visit our site. Feel free to reach out to me as well.

mikec1120@comcast.net
https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/crow-dna/about
https://www.familytreedna.com/public/CrowDNA?iframe=yresults
https://gap.familytreedna.com/project-statistics.aspx

Introduction to Y-DNA testing

https://isogg.org/wiki/Y_chromosome_DNA_tests

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Background on the Gold Crows. Origins, Objectives and DNA Evidence

The Crow surname project on FTDNA has been around for about 20 years. With 600+ members, that puts the project into the top 100 of the 50,000 surname projects on FTDNA. There are 20 unique Crow lines identified that are unrelated in the surname era. The largest identified group is the Gold colored group. There are 106 testers. Of whom 10 have tested all the way to to the BigY700. This test reads STR and SNP markers along the y-chromosome. 60 men have tested at 37 STR markers and above , while the rest sit at 12 and 25 STR markers. All the BigY testers tested positive for the SNP, I-F22033. This SNP was formed approximately around the year 426AD/CE. The only testers in FTDNA that have this SNP are Gold Colored Crows. Of the 106 testers, only 3 have a surname other than Crow. These 3 men had an NPE (non paternal event) occur somewhere in their lines and are all likely related to the others within the last 250-500 years. We can decipher genetic distance be...

Gold Crow SNP Path

To date, there are 58 Crow testers that fall under haplogroup I-F22033. FTDNA estimates this man was born around 1750, but we know based on the paper trail for all the Crows the more likely birth of this man was before 1720CE. It's possible this man was born in Europe or was the son of our immigrant ancestor. https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/I-F22033/story There were several Crow men living in Spartanburg, SC in the mid to late 1700s. The paper trail is near impossible to determine how each are connected. The goal was to Y-DNA test direct male descendants of each man to try to find genetic mutations called SNPs to build a genetic family tree. Some testers would confirm to be a Gold Crow and test I-F22033+, but their lines would not show any more elaborate genetic branching we would hope for to decipher relationships between individuals. We know that most of these individuals were closely related, but I cannot say what the relationship was exactly. The goo...

Update on Gold Y Testing

We recently hit a giant milestone in our Y-DNA Project. We have 40 completed BigY700 DNA kits out of 110 testers. That is nearing 40 percent of all testers! The BigY reads 40 million areas of the Y chromosome and is the best DNA kit to determine genetic distance between family members. The 40 kits have resulted in several families being branched off from one another in the last 270 years. Our extensive testing has revealed that our Y chromosome is mutating slower than the average family, resulting in less defined family branches. This has been frustrating as the genetic family tree has not given some of us the answers we were looking for. This has been furthered aggravated by a paper trail that does not exist between 1700-1750, the crucial years we are looking to piece back together. But we have made many discoveries and the effort has been rewarding. There are two kinds of Y tests. STR (short tandem repeats) and SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms) are genetic mut...

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