Preliminary Results

I have reworked and reorganized all of the DNA Results and sorted everyone by Haplogroup rather than location. I did this because 1st: People within the Westmoreland Family are known to have emigrated to both Ireland and the US, so this one genetic family is spread out over at least three different countries, and 2nd: Within the same country there are members of two different families living in close proximity (for example, within the state of Virginia during the 1600s). By staying focused on the genetics of the surnames rather than the specific locations as the primary factor and treating location as secondary, it should be less confusing which people are related to whom.

Within the Claiborne/Clyborn families there are two predominant Haplogroups - I-M170 & R-M269. These two groups alone account for 45 of the 57 Y-DNA results present.

Haplogroup I-M253

There are two responses for this haplogroup, Kits 7482 & 323204. While the two responses are of the same general haplogroup architecture, there is not a close genetic match. These individuals have 13 genetic marker deviations, which suggest that their most recent common ancestor was approximately 54 to 56 generations ago.

Haplogroup R

This group contains 4 kits (172898, 38806, B470084, & 151220). Although all four kits are loosely in the R branch, none of the kits share any close connections with each other nor any other Claiborne/Clyburn matches.

Haplogroup E

Like Haplogroup R, this group contains 5 kits that are loosely related in the E branch of the human genome. (960881, 104913, 866365, 91910, and B16557). None of these results match each other, nor do they match any other group. Kits 91910 & B16557 are the closest match within this group, but they have 11 deviations in their code which suggests a Most Recent Common Ancestor between 46 and 48 generations ago.

Haplogroup J-M241

There is a single entry for Haplogroup J-M241, Kit 2206. This kit does not remotely resemble any other matches anywhere within the project. At this time we must conclude that the likely explanation is a Non-Paternity Event or Surname Switch that produced this result.

Haplogroup I-M170

This haplogroup represents the family of Col. William Claiborne and his descendants. There are 13 responses for this haplogroup. Of them, kit N47601 is an outlier and doesn’t match the rest of the samples. This person may have shared a common ancestor with the rest of the group many generations ago, but there is no close genetic match.

As for the rest of the group, there are 3 who share a 100% match across 37 markers. I am considering this the base for the I-M170 haplogroup. These kits are 235057, 700403, & 50140. These are members who are known descendants of Col. William. Kit 12658 also matches this group at 25 out of 25.

The rest of the group shows delineations and mutations from this base sample with the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) ranging from 5 to 18 generations ago. The kit numbers and deviations for the remainder of this group are presented on the right.