DNA Testing
The East FHS DNA testing programme was initiated in 2004 by past chairman Lionel East. When he retired as chairman in 2010 Lionel handed the programme to Ron East.
If you have a Y DNA Test and would be willing to share your results with the society please contact us.
In the DNA Managers Report to the 2013 AGM:
”Thirty-six Y-DNA tests have been carried out on members of the Society since the project was launched. Eighteen of the thirty six tests have shown matches that establish links to one of six familial lines. The remaining eighteen tests have established eighteen further familial lines, each with one member.
There are, therefore, twenty four familial lines identified at the moment within the project.
Matches may emerge in the future if more male members or male blood relatives of members can be encouraged to take a Y-DNA test.”
Four articles are included below, about DNA and how it is used in family history research. The first article is about DNA itself – what it is and what it does. The second about Y-chromosomal DNA and why it is so useful in genealogical research; the third about mitochondrial DNA and how it is passed down only the female line; and the last about autosomal DNA. Hopefully when you have finished reading these articles you will be able to understand fully what a DNA test certificate means.