Devon DNA

If you have taken a DNA test of any kind and you have Devon ancestors, have you joined the Devon DNA Project?

The Devon DNA Project group administrator is Debbie Kennett: debbiekennett@aol.com

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Debbie is a Devon Family History Society member and she will be adding more information about tests, talks and links to DNA explanations and presentations on this page.

The Devon DNA project

The Devon DNA project is a Y-DNA and mtDNA geographical project for everyone with patrilineal or matrilineal ancestry from the English county of Devon. Participants can order either a Y-DNA (Y-chromosome) test to find out about their patriline (your father, your father’s father, your father’s father’s father, etc) or a mitochondrial DNA test to learn about their matriline (your mother, your mother’s mother, your mother’s mother’s mother, etc). The only requirement for joining the project is that participants must have a documented paper trail to Devon on the patriline for the Y-DNA test or on the matriline line for the mtDNA test. The project also welcomes participants who have taken the Family Finder autosomal DNA test. To qualify for the project with a Family Finder test you must have documented Devon ancestry on at least one branch of your family tree within the last five generations.

Perhaps you have questions before you decide to have a test or you have received your test results but you don’t know what to do with all those numbers.

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