Crow DNA Project

 2020 has been a year of recruiting new testers and building out the Crow Genetic Tree. A lot of behind the scenes work went into this. Countless emails, messages on the DNA sites, and loads of investigative work on family trees. We've talked with a lot of folks all across this nation  and made some friends along the way. This Project is fun and a worthwhile adventure.  The Gold Crow family now has 110 testers, with 30  at the BigY700 level. Those are incredible numbers, I have not seen any other surname project with  these kinds of numbers in one family grouping. There are two reasons for this, 1. Participation by all of you, recognizing the value of purchasing a Y DNA kit and even going all in on the expensive BigY test. This is the most advanced test that FTDNA offers and brings the best clarity on dating estimates. 2. Phil and I have worked well together, we live on the opposite coasts, but we have a shared goal on finding out how we all connect and where our ancestors came fro

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 between testers by using the TI