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Y-DNA is passed from father to son unchanged for upwards to 20 or more generations.It is particularly useful in proving or disproving a relationship when the documentation is not provable. Y-DNA can also help discover links to family lines that document research has not uncovered.
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mtDNA is not as usefull as is Y-dna. It is passed from mother to child unchanged for thousands of years, but since a females surname changes with marriage, it isn't as usefull in tracing family lines.
Our Origins
Where We Came From
Associated Surnames
Caer, Car, Care, Carr, Carrach, Carre, Cear, Cer, Corr, Kar, Kare, Karr,Kaar, Karre, Kaare, Kaer, Kar, Kaurr Kay, Ker,Kear, Kehr, Keire, Kere, Keor, Kerr,Kerre, Keyr, Kier, Kurr,
Carrach is also the Gaelic form of Kerr in Arran ( ie One Of The Kerr's) The name Carr in Ireland is not just an anglicized form of the Scottish Kerr only.During the time of the penal laws in Ireland, a number of different native Gaelic Sept names were anglicized to Carr also. It being decidedly unpopular if not downright dangerous to be either Catholic or Gaelic at that time
These include the O'Carraigh Sept of County Louth,
From Ulster the Anglicized form of the Gaelic
� Carra � descendant of
Carra�, a byname meaning �spear�.
From Donegal The Anglicized form of the Gaelic
Mac Giolla Chathair,
a name meaning
�son of the servant of The Mac Giolla Domhnaigh Sept of County Derry
And the O'Ceardain Sept of County Donegal.
The Kerr surname also absorbed examples of the German surname Kehr.
Kehr from Middle High German kere �bend�,
�corner�, hence a topographic name for someone living near a bend in a road or
near a field named with this word. The name is common in Tyrol (where it is also
a place name from which the surname may have arisen) and in adjoining parts of
Switzerland. possibly a short form of a personal name, Kehri
or Kehrein, derived
from the Roman personal name Quirinus, which was borne by several early Christian martyrs. Dictionary
of American Family Names, Oxford University
Genalogical Objectives
Analysis of the mutations in the Y-chromosome can also be used to estimate the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) in terms of number of generations since the separation occurred.
If your Carr research has hit a �stone wall�,DNA analysis could be the break through you have been looking for, and push your genealogy research back generations, by finding connections to other Carr family Lines.
Genealogical DNA testing is
still in it's infancy, having only been available since 2000.
As the data
base expands with more and more individuals being tested, it cannot but help
become a greater genealogical asset as the time goes by.
However, since we
are presently interested in tracing surnames, which are usually passed from
father to son, the testing of the Y-chromosome DNA and SNP test is what we are
interested in.
For more information on DNA and Y-chromosome testing see
The Carr Surname DNA Program
Your membership in the program will require the submission of genealogically relevant DNA results.
Carr / Kerr Family DNA Contact: John Carr
A Word Of Caution
There is always a possibility that you could get a disappointing test result. Samples can vary by three or more markers from the main group, and may do so for a number of reasons.
One reason could be that they represent distinct lines, either older or younger than the currently observed and most frequent line. Another is that there could have been a �non-paternal event� at some unknown past time.
For instance;
Twenty people are tested and 19 are very
similar but the last is clearly different.
It could turn out that the 19
descend from the same person 300
years ago and this person was an adopted
Carr.
While the other is of the original Carr blood line going back 800
years.
The Carr surname could probably have come from at least four distinct groups;