My brother did the Y-DNA 67 test for our Dunlap surname.  The deep clade test results came back J2a4b, M67+, L27+, L26+ and shorthand for J-M67.

My Dunlap's were from Scotland and I am beginning to think that there were not many J2's in Scotland.  

My paper trail goes back to 1884 to a marriage document of my great grandfather who was married in Hopkins Co., Kentucky.  The license said that he was born in Illinois in 1863.  He died before 1900 because his widow was remarried on the 1900 census with my grandfather listed as 14 years old.  

It sure would be nice if I could find a match that would help me with the brick wall that I have here.  I have not been able to find him on the 1870 or 1880 census.  I'm thinking there is a good possibility that his father could have been killed in the Civil War.

Any suggestions for me in my search would be appreciated.

Carolyn

Hi All

I am J2b2 from Poland, my father was an adopted. According to my FTDNA group administrator my father could have a German ancestor. He was born in Gluszyca 1948-05-23. He never found any informations about his paternal line. I want to know more about J2B2 in Germany. thank you

Our family name is McKinney.  My 95 year old father took the Y-DNA 67 test.  We were totally surprised to find we were only McKinney's in the J2 halogroup.  Have found couple of matches to the name Kinney.  My paper trail goes back to Christian County, Kentucky and then to Lancaster County, South Carolina, in the 1700's.   Research points to Scot-Irish as they seem to be the majority who settled in Lancaster County at that time. Would love to talk to anyone who would have further information about this group.

Hi Betty, since my Grandfather George John William Dunlap was born in Hopkins Co., Ky and there were Dunlaps in both Hopkins Co., and Christian Co., whose genealogy line goes back to Lancaster County SC.  I've been researching this collateral line.  There is one researcher for this line that did the YDNA test and the results were not a match with my J2a4b.  So, that probably rules out that particular Dunlap line for me, but it is interesting that I have a match from Scotland and his family name is Ferguson.

I'm glad to read that even though our names are different it is nice to know of another J2 from Scotland and that they were in Christian Co., Kentucky.

I wonder how close our test results are? :)

I was reading that some of the Dunlap families joined up with the Ferguson Clan to avoid religious persecution.  I haven't proven that was my family, but it would explain to me why there is a match with someone else with a different family name.

Carolyn

Betty, I will send an invite to you to see my Ancestry Tree.  I will need an e-mail address to send it to you.  You can send it private to my messages if you want to.

Something else interesting is that my great grandfather's name is George Mc Dunlap.  The only document that I have of him is his marriage license and bond in Hopkins Co., Ky.  He signed his name George Mc Dunlap.  Also, he said that he was born in Illinois.  Do you have Illinois connections with this family?

Carolyn

Here are my 67 marker Y-DNA Haplogroup J2a4b  J-M67 alleles

Allele 12 23 14 10 14 16 11 15 12 14 11 31 18 9 9 11 11 25 15 20 29 12 14 16 16 9 9 19 23 15 14 19 15 37 38 12 9 11 7 15 15 8 11 10 8 11 9 12 17 18 14 10 12 12 18 8 12 23 21 13 12 11 9 10 12 12 12

My 67 marker Y-DNA as follows:

Allele  12 23 14 10 13 17 11 15 12 13 11 28 14 9 9 11 11 24 15 21 30 14 14 15 16 10 10 19 22 15 15 17 14 33 35 11 9 10 7 14-15 8 11 10 8 10 10 12 17-17 16 11 12 13 15 8 12 22 22

I've just had the 23andme test results, and found my paternal haplogroup is J2.

An interesting result, given my families appear to have exclusively lived in Suffolk and Norfolk (UK) for as far back as I can trace.    (J2 seems to be rare amongst native brits).

That said, the Suffolk family (Shimmen-Burch) were in a coastal port (Woodbridge), and there was a story of a Turkish connection.,,,

- Paul

My paternal Great-Grandfather Hamdollah Zanjani Ghochani was born in Turkmenistan or Persian/Azeri ancestry. We have many unique SNP's from Our Walk Through the Y and Geno 2 tests. Our Haplo is J2a4h2a according to Family Tree DNA. and Geno 2 calls us J-L397 (a branch of J-L70) I have done the 111 marker and deep clade tests with FTDNA with zero matches closer than 12 differences. I can't wait for a day where I may find a closer match and more clarity as to where my ancestors came from in recent history (500 years or so)

I descend from an L70+ J2-er, Robert Smith. He was born about 1725, & died in Cumberland, VA in 1776. He first emerged there in 1763 when he purchased 400 acres from James Allen. We SUSPECT that he was involved in the Weald, iron-working area south of London; hence the name 'Smith". However, no proof as-yet. But, we have a distant match to a Garnett who was not only involved in that industry, those Garnetts also settled in VA (Essex, VA) and migrated to the same Cumberland VA area.

My brother is J-172,  I am the person who is actively working the genealogy.

Last name is Moore. Farest back in this line is John Moore born 1796 in Pennsylvania possibly Chester County. married in Ohio in 1827 to Susan Lowery.  My brother tested 37 markers at FTDNA.  Got  a match for 12 markers with the name Bennett. We're still trying to link the 2.  We joined the Moore surname group and there's no match within that group.  All the Moores I am able to identify as being from the area are the R1s . And Irish .  We thought we were! We are in the mid 90 percentages for Great Britian meaning Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.  MY Mtdna at family finder lists me as HV and 96 percent Orcadian.  So if anyone knows of so Moores that are J2-M172 we would sure like to make contact.

A person on another site said he knows of Kirkpatricks who changed their name to Moore for political reasons  so I guess I'd like to connect to J2-172 Kirkpatricks as well.  (Talk about an identity crisis!)  

My husband did a 12-marker test at FTDNA His predicted haplogroup is J2_M172.

His paternal great-grandfather was born in Lithuania in 1846 and was living in Chicago before 1873. He was Ashkenazi.

Shelley Moore Hallman, My family came from Pennsylvania and then Ohio, as well. On FTDNA our Cummins J2 Ydna came back to Montgomery's. No CUMMINS. I wondered if you matched Montgomery's too? Or, if we'd match Bennett? I'll join the Bennett ydna group. Maybe you'll compare against the Montgomery? Thanks... Shanen 

Hi, we just had our DNA done thru 23andme.

My Husbands Paternal Line is J2 -- Haplogroup J2 -- Subgroup J

His father line is Miller - Muller - Muller from Wurtenburg,Germany ,Prussia and Saxhony Germany

Thank You

Clara

Clara Joyce Schaeffer Miller,

I am also a member of the J2 Haplogroup, specifically J-M172 and also am tracking the Miller surname. What specific area of Germany have you found this Miller? Obviously a long shot in finding a match but I have no idea where else I can start at this point.

I had my uncle and great uncle tested and both came back with J-M172. The surname is REDING. I can only get back as far as my great, great, grandfather, John REDING, born 1832 in Hesse Darmstadt. His parents names are unknown. I had them tested through FTDNA and have uploaded my uncles info onto GEDMatch and so far the only match that I can confirm is a known cousin. Has anyone else with M172 also put their info on GEDMatch?

This is a tough old game. Autosomal dna with ancestry thousands of low hits. Family Finder 350 hits 2-4th cousin best. Y-dna no hits J-M172.  Mtdna 21 hits, dont recognise anyone. Any ideas. Looked at Conn surname group and none are J-M172.  Always had a doubt about it. I am from Scotland. Names on my mothers side are Park, Scott, Muir, Sampson, Mitchell, Hamilton, Begg.

My y-dna numbers are 13 23 16 11 15-17 11 15 13 12 11, 28,14,9-9,12,10,27,15,20,32,13-15-16-18,10,11,19-1917,14,17,15,34-37,12,10.

37 markers from ftdna and no matches. Nothing on Ancestry. 

This was my first post. I am reposting in case there is someone who recognizes the name.  Comment by Evelyn Margarita Hutto on July 29, 2009 at 9:41am