Garrison Y-DNA
Since YDNA is passed down from father to son this test can only
be performed on males. Also, since it is passed on from father
to son it follows the name passed down from father to son. So
for me this section can only be about Garrisons. I recently
got my YDNA tested and my father and I are a perfect match
whew! not adopted (my sisters would tease me growing up saying I was
adopted).
My father started getting involved with DNA in the early part of
2005. He sent away for his YDNA kit from FTDNA and within a
couple months he was notified that he had one match from another
Garrison. He found out that he was matching the DNA of
William
Lloyd Garrison's great grandson. This was really unexpected as we
know for a fact that our Garrisons were descended from a German who
came to New Amsterdam with the Dutch in the early 1630's.
William Lloyd Garrison was supposed to have been descended from and
englishman. But that was just conjecture and most likely just
a guess on the part of the authors of the time. Both my father
and William Lloyd Garrison's great grandson had 67 markers tested and were
still a match with only 2 unmatching markers out of 67.
My kit is 213278 and my father's kit is 31200 so you if you navigate
to the
Garrison DNA Project you can compare them for yourself.
Our Garrisons are represented in the
Garrison DNA project
"Garrison's Compass" as the subgroup
GJvO "Gerrit Jansen Van
Oldenburg" group. The majority of our group are descended from
Jacob Gerritzen of Southern New Jersey. But there are a couple
who are descended through Jacob's brother Jan "John"
Gerritzen.
Both Jacob and John were sons of
Gerrit Jansen Van Oldenburg.
Big Y
I had a DNA test performed called the Big Y and the purpose of this
test is to try to find our deep ancestral roots. When my
father first started in this endeavor we knew we were R1a and then
he had a deep clade test performed and found out he was R1a1a.
Well a haplogroup is like a family tree and we descend from R1a to a
branch known as R1a1a then eventually to a branch called R1a-Z282
then we branch off at R1a-Y2395 and then to a new SNP found so far
in only Gerrit Jansen van Oldenburg descendants known as R-YP3896 and that is (at this time) our
terminating SNP.
R-Y2395 was found predominantly in Northern Germany and
some throughout Norway. So our terminating SNP at the
present time is R-YP3896 a sub branch of R-Y2395 which is found in Northern Germany
just like our oldest known paternal ancestor
Gerrit Jansen
Van Oldenburg (Oldenburg, Germany). Please refer to my
YFull Report found in the DNA links on the left. I
submitted my Big Y data to YFULL to try to get as much
mileage out of my data as possible. Here is a nice
R1a1a haplogroup map.
Autosomal DNA
Autosomal DNA is DNA that you get from your mother and your
father. It is called recombinate DNA for it is taken half from
each parent and recombined to form your DNA. The Family Finder from
FTDNA and the AncestryDNA from Ancestry.com are examples of an
autosomal DNA test. This test has really proven to be
benificial for breaking down some of my brick walls.
I have taken back my Goodman line 3 more generations
because of a DNA match I have with other Goodman descendants
(See my Goodman line).
Mitocondrial DNA
My mitocondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup is H11a2a1.
Mitocondrial DNA like YDNA follows your MATERNAL line so I know that
my mother is also H11a2a1 and so was her mother, etc.
Mitocondrial DNA matches are harder to confirm if you are
from the same ancestor in recent times because of marriages and
adopting the surname of the husband. If I have a YDNA
match at > 25 markers and their last name is Garrison I know for
a fact that they are a descendant of
Gerrit Jansen Van Oldenburg
but I cannot say the same for a mtDNA match.
