Please do visit the project site and have a look around at the different pages to get yourself acquainted. The project's first focus is the van Eessen surname including its many potential variants (see below) and the way it is inherited along the patrilineal or direct male line (your father’s father’s etcetera line).
We need people to participate!
Please do ask any questions you might have about the DNA project. You are encouraged to post them below or in the van Eessen Genealogy Group on Facebook. This way the answers to your questions will be public and accessible to everyone. Of course, you are free to write me an e-mail as well. As a project administrator I will do my best to reply to your questions within a reasonable timeframe.
We need people to participate!
Right now the challenge is to recruit male volunteers to participate and have themselves tested. presumably, we will find them primarily in Belgium and the Netherlands, but any male around the world with a surname that is within the project scope is welcome: i.e. surnames like Van Eessen, Vaneessen, Vanheessen, but also de Heese, Hees, Heese, Heesen, Heeze, Heezen, Hese, Hesen, van der Esch, van Ees, van Es, van Esch, Van Essche, Van Esschen, van Essen, van Hees, van Heesch, van Heese, van Heesen, van Heessch, van Heeze, Van Heezen, van Hes, van Hese, Van Hessche, van Hesse, van Hessen, van Nes, Vaneesche, Vanesch, Vanesche, Vanese, Vanessche, Vanesse, Vanhees, Vanheesche, Vanheessche, Vanhese, Vanhessche, Vanhesschen, Vanhesse, Vanhessen, Vannes, Vannesche, Vannessche, Vannesse, as well as any other possible variant or similar surname that may exist.
Therefore, I am doing a warm appeal: if you have one of the surnames above or a similar one, please do get in touch and participate. We can only achieve results and learn more about our surname history possible shared ancestry if we have a sufficient number or people in the project. If you have one of the above surnames but are female, please persuade you father, brother, paternal uncle, cousin, etc. to participate on your behalf (see next for the reason why).
What kind of DNA test?
For the DNA project we focus on testing Y-DNA, which only males have and which is passed on from father to son, just like the surname. You'll find more info on the Overview page of the DNA project site. The 37 marker Y-DNA test of FTDNA is recommended as a minimum to start the testing process and to enable us to reliably confirm or rule out a genetic match with other project members within the genealogical timeframe (i.e. the historical period for which genealogical archive records are available). If you have done a test with fewer markers, you are encouraged to upgrade to at least 37 markers. Of course the Y-DNA tests with 67 or 111 markers will give you test results at a higher resolution, which is helpful when going beyond this genealogical timeframe, and trying to find matches with other surnames and gain insight in your deep ancestry (on the condition that other members have also tested with 67 or 111 markers). Of course upgrading to more markers is always possible.
Do you have questions?
Please do ask any questions you might have about the DNA project. You are encouraged to post them below or in the van Eessen Genealogy Group on Facebook. This way the answers to your questions will be public and accessible to everyone. Of course, you are free to write me an e-mail as well. As a project administrator I will do my best to reply to your questions within a reasonable timeframe.
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