Genetic
Genealogy
West Florida Parishes
(Southeast Louisiana)
Membership in St. Tammany Genealogical Society is not required
to participate in the West Florida Parishes Regional DNA Project
Robert B. Noles, West Florida Parishes Regional DNA Project Group Administrator
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BACKGROUND
This Regional DNA Project is for living descendants of the pioneers of the West Florida Parishes of Louisiana and the neighboring areas of Mississippi. The West Florida Parishes belonged to Spanish Florida at the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. These parishes didn’t become a part of Louisiana until 1810.
This project is for the purpose of supporting the genealogical efforts of the family historians and the descendants for all the many pioneer families who settled the West Florida Parish Region via the use of genetic testing.
The West Florida Parishes Regional DNA Project is open to anyone who believes they are (or could be) descendants of one of the area’s pioneer families. This project is both a Y-Chromosome (direct paternal line) and a mitochondrial DNA (direct maternal line) study. You are hereby cordially invited to participate in this historic project. Those requesting participation are requested to supply Robert B. Noles with their known genealogies.
The West Florida Parish Region is in southeast Louisiana and includes eight current Louisiana parishes: East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington and West Feliciana. The Mississippi counties of Amite, Hancock, Lamar, Marion, Pearl River, Pike, and Walthall are immediately adjacent to the Louisiana West Florida Parishes. These Mississippi counties were also home to many of the same pioneers who settled the West Florida Parishes in the 18th and 19th centuries.
This project is for the purpose of supporting the genealogical efforts of the descendants for all the many pioneer families who initially settled the West Florida Parishes Region. Many surnames were changed during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries due to adoptions, out-of-wedlock births, family disagreements, etc. Therefore, the Y-DNA for many descendants may not match other descendants with the same surname. This project will permit comparisons of Y-DNA and mtDNA test results across a spectrum of southeast Louisiana families in conjunction with the genealogical databases maintained by Robert B. Noles and the resources of the St. Tammany Genealogical Society Library. The databases available includes one developed by Thomas Hughes which contains the published genealogies (and a lot more) from the Doris E. (Martin) Holden publications as well as many other surname family historians from this region.
POSTING of
RESULTS
Results for DNA tests and the correlation of these results with genealogies will be posted here as they become available. Participants will NOT be identified by name, but by a code (FTDNA Kit number) to protect your privacy. When available, and by specific permission, the researcher(s) for the genealogies will be identified. The two links above for Haplogroups and Genetic Terms will assist you in understanding the posted test results and the terminology used through out Genetic Genealogy.
Participants in the West Florida Parishes Regional DNA Project will receive (in the mail) a certificate documenting their test results as well as a detailed report explaining the deep ancestral meaning of the results. In addition, participants will be provided a personal page at FTDNA.com (password protected) where they can examine the results, compare their results to others whose results are genealogically significant, order more tests, etc. Participants will be provided contact information (email only) for the other project members who have genealogical significant matching results.
membership in Huxford Genealogical Society not required
under construction
Should you be interested in participating in a specific Surname Project, you can use the link below for Family Tree DNA to determine if a project is available for your specific surname. A review of all available Surname and Regional DNA Projects can be obtained via a search at FTDNA.com via the banner below.
If you already participate in a Surname Project with FamilyTreeDNA.com, you can join the West Florida Parishes Regional Project directly from your Personal Page at FTDNA.com. Enter your Kit Number and Password on the FTDNA home page to access your Personal Page. At the top of your personal page click on the JOIN Icon
to see the listing of FTDNA Projects appropriate for your surname. The Wiregrass Georgia Project should be one of the Projects listed.
If you have not been tested as yet, and a Surname Project has not been established at FTDNA for your particular surname, you can JOIN the West Florida Parishes Project now and at some later date JOIN your Surname Project, after it has been established.
Note: You can only JOIN two projects at FTDNA;
usually one Surname Project and one Regional Project.
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