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Group Administrator: Jeri Boyd boyddna@sbcglobal.net

Project Surnames:

Boid	Boyd	Boyde	Hay

Project Background:

The Boyd Y-DNA surname study was started in the summer of 2002 by Cal Boyd, FSA Scot, Genealogist for the House of Boyd Society, Inc. http://www.clanboyd.org.

This public database was started on July 16, 2004.

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Project Goals:

BOYD and HAY surnames. Goals are 1) to establish genetic connections with cousins worldwide 2) to complement genealogical research through genetics. 3) To prove or disprove various theories of the origin of the BOYD name. 4) To establish a genetic link with the BOYDs of Kilmarnock. 5) To establish a genetic connection with descendants of James BOYD who changed his name to HAY when he became the 15th Earl of Errol in 1758. 6) To research a genetic connection with Clan Stewart.

Project News:

The Y-results have been grouped by "HaploGROUP" to facilitate analysis. There is no likelihood of people from DIFFERENT haplogroups having a common male ancestor within the past several thousand years. Analysis of relationships WITHIN haplogroups is ongoing.

Sub-grouping is completed, where possible, and it is most important to realise that people in any sub-group described as "UNMATCHED" are NOT thought to be related!

Further sub-grouping has been completed on the R1b Boyds, with individual sub-clades separated out where known. The largest sub-group (indeed in the entire project) is now known to be the rare "R1b1b2g1" variety. It is also known as R1b-U198/S29. You can find more information on this rare group here:

http://meekdna.com/U198dna/

This classification has been done on the basis of one member testing positive on a SNP test with Ethnoancestry for "S29" and another testing positive for "U198" (which is exactly the same thing) with FTDNA.

We will get a lot further when a lot more of the "R1b1b2g1" people upgrade to a minimum of 37 markers because most of their interesting and definitive markers would be on FTDNA's "3rd panel". Any genealogy which these people could post (in "gedcom" form) would be most helpful.

One of our "UNMATCHED" R1b Boyds is a very close match for a member of the McAbee project. He upgraded to 37 markers which made this relationship even clearer. There is a strong possibility that some "McAboy" names became McAbee (and variants) while another line became "Boyd". Whilst one must interpret "non-surname matches" with great care, this shows the fallacy of ruling them out completely.

Anyone with any questions or suggestions is most welcome to contact Project Administrator, Jeri Ann Boyd.

Project Results:

To preserve the privacy of the participants, only the kit number is displayed. The results sequence may change as new results are posted because these are automatically-sorted by marker number. In addition, sub-grouping is dynamic and will be updated as new groupings and relationships become clear. This sub-grouping is vital to making sense of the data.

The project has already demonstrated a wealth of data and some interesting findings. Like many surnames, the Boyds show great diversity with many different haplogroups already represented.

The largest sub-group ("R1b1b2g1" or "U198/S29+") found to date has a very distinctive "motif" but this is only clear where a minimum of 37 markers are available. Members of this group in particular are STRONGLY recommended to upgrade to a minimum of 37 markers. Even better would be the 67-marker test as there are two key markers on the 38-67 panel.

All members are encouraged to upload their Y-DNA results to the "Ysearch" database. This is accessible by pressing the "Ysearch" button on your personal page.

Members who have few matches should check that their preference is NOT set to "surname matches only". You might well have a valid match with another surname as we recently saw with the Boyd/McAbee example.

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