Any Roach family members ,have you had your DNA tested?

Question

I am looking to do testing and am not sure how to go about it. Independently or thru some project somewhere. And since I have a brother who will not do the test. Do I have other options, since Roach is my dad?

Comments

My maiden name is Roach - They are from, Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky. Originally from Ireland. I did my DNA through ancestry, and it has proven beneficial. 23 and me does the Haplogroup which is the chromosome only the males have, so I would suggest a male to do it.

Answer 1

Trudy,  There is a Roach surname project at Family Tree DNA, so you should sign up for a yDNA, 37 marker test, if you can find the right person to test.  Does your brother have a son?  Is your father still living?  If not, is a brother of your father still living, or a son of your father's brother?  It helps to think that you're looking for a close male relative with the surname Roach.  If you have no male Roach family members to test, your next best bet is for you to take a Family Finder test at Family Tree DNA. That may help you find cousins back several generations  Good luck!

Comments

You may want to look at https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Roache.  You do not have to join a project to get started but eventually you will want to so that they will post your markers for comparison.  You can join as many projects as you want with a few exceptions.

If your focus is Y-DNA you will need a male sample with surname Roach.  If not your brother, then an uncle, cousin even distant, but Roach.  

All I can tell you is that you will learn something no matter which route you take but I suggest that you keep your expectations manageable and view it as something else you ordered to help with your research.

---

Thank you Kay and Corinne. I have no expectations. I don't even know if testing would give me what I'm looking for. I would like to know if my father's parents are connected way back. I suspect Roaches,  Hunnicutts  , Moores and Lynchs have had various connections back  many generations. And I'm not sure testing can tell me this. Or if my mom's family runs into my dad's family some where recent.  500 hundred yrs or so. There is so much more than just knowing who I came from. But why did we get here , is quite absorbing. It is interesting that ties continue over centuries. I was looking for Moore's married to Hunnicutts and found a Hunnicutt married to a Roach in Ireland further back than I have records of my Roaches. My nephew is  Moore and he's finding. Moore's tied to Roaches and Hunnicutts.  So the plan for DNA  testing was to do my brother, nephew and son and the differences and similar. Oh well. It's not like not finding what one is looking for is disappointing when one finds what one was not looking for. Onward and upward.

---

Y-DNA testing of males with the Hunnicutt, or Moore, or Lynch surname  (and Y-DNA tests of distant direct paternal line cousins of each) can confirm that their tested direct paternal lines are accurate back to your Hunnicutt or Moore or lynch ancestor.  If you are an auDNA match with those Y-DNA testers (who have also had an auDNA test) and you are able to determine the auDNA match is due to shared Hunnicutt or Moore or Lynch ancestry then it would be evidence that your ancestry is accurate.

Answer 2

I have.  My test was done thru ancestry.com and the result was A235323.

Answer 3

It sounds like what you're looking for is GEDmatch's "Are Your Parents Related?" tool. As with everything in genetic genealogy the results should be taken with a grain of salt or two, but it is probably one of the best easy ways to determine how closely your parents are related and all it requires is a standard autosomal DNA test and for you to upload your results to GEDmatch. 

I think it's important to realize that if you can locate a male in your Roach line willing to test, a yDNA test will not really tell you anything about how closely your parents (or your father's) are related. It will likely provide you with information about your more distant paternal line ancestors. For instance you may find that most of the yDNA matches are of Irish descent, confirming your current understanding. Or you may find that most of the matches are of French or say Norwegian descent which would likely mean that one of your distant Irish Roach paternal line ancestors was the son of a French or Norwegian man (both reasonably probable scenarios). In my own experience one of the challenges regarding yDNA is that the common ancestor will likely be too distant for genealogical records to identify (not very distant in the case of Irish records in my experience).

Answer 4

My brother took a test, and he is listed on the Roach project as #7113, I-M223.

However, those numbers are simply confusing to me.

Answer 5

I am a Roach descendant, and have Ancestry DNA and a fairly well developed tree there (in my humble opinion), where I've used source documents and not other peoples' trees to build the records.  It may be a bit distant but I've had some Ancestry DNA matches whose trees go back to Roach, so that may help you tangentially.  I also expect to have my grandmother's tests soon.

Crudely put, I am ...

-Me

-Mother maiden name Shuler 1958-2006

-Her mother maiden name Logue 1943-present

-Her father Guy Clifton Logue 1894-1942

-His mother Ethel Vivian Roach 1873 Kansas - ??

-Her father John M Roach 1845 Tennessee - ??

-His father Thomas K Roach 1817 Tennessee - 1906 Iowa

And from there it does seem to trace back to the Orange, NC Roaches but I haven't vetted those records & connections quite as thoroughly.  

The connection is likely too tenuous but you never know!

Comments

T. W.  These are the lines I'm looking for thank You.

---

Hi Trudy, I saw in one of your post that you are researching Roach and hunnicutt surnames. My mother was a Roach and her father was born in Virginia. His father John C. Roach lived and died 1926,  in idabel oklahoma. John C. Roach Sr. Is as for as I have gotten on the Roaches. They married into the Hall, Crawford Hunnicutt, as well as others. I have taken DNA test. Haven't had anyone take the Y test yet. If you would like to discuss this Roach surname line let me know. Thank you.

---

Hey Virginia.  I would guess we are probably closely related based on the first name of Crawford Hunnicutt only.  The Hunnicutts go back to Robert Crawford.  So Crawfords and Crayfords are in their line.  I have been very ill lately and have not worked on my lines.  It is my belief that the Roaches and Hunnicutts both tie together up line from my Grand parents Charles Warren Roach Sr. and Bertie Hunnicutt.  My father is a Jr. and I was told Warren is a family name in the Roaches.  Interesting thing is my Hunnicutt grand mother is where I find the Warrens in the 1600s in Virginia.  As of yet I have not found Warrens in the Roach line.  I would very much like to see your tree.

As of right now I am becoming more involved with a group feeding and watering starving feral horses on the Navajo Reservation at Gray Mountain near my home in Flagstaff, Arizona.  I have started producing some horse sculptures to sell for support of the horses.  I will take sometime to track Crawford Hunicutt.  Thank You so much for responding to my question.   Trudy

---

Hi Trudy, Yes I'm almost positive we are cousin somehow. I believe John Calvin Roach had a daughter name Gola that married a Houston Gunnicutt from Isabel Oklahoma. That's where John C Roach passed in 1928.  My grandmother was Ezra Crawford. I am kin to the Roach, Hall, Crawford,Johnson and probably other. Most of them lived in and close to Arkansas in the late 1800's forward. They came from up in and around Virginia.  Scott co.and surrounding areas. Maybe we can help each other put some of the pieces together. Look forward to Chating with you.Thank you.

---

Hey Trudy, I googled Roach, Hunnicutt et al on Google books and found a man named Brother James Roach, "Roxy" who was a locomotive Engineer who had a grandson named James William Hunnicutt.  The EBook is free and has a date of April 2, 1914 from Sedalia, MO.  The name of the book is "Locomotive Engineers Journal, Vol. 48."

There was also a Textile League Baseball team out of SC with all the names you mentioned.

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

My father, Uncle and aunt all have tested and surname is Roach from Baker County, GA. My dad did ftdna Y-37 Marker. His haplogroup is rare, G M201.

Herbert, George and Dorthy Roach

Thanks

Answer 7

My grandmother is Roach-3235, and my brother (Kersting-136) and I have both uploaded our 23 and Me DNA results.