Carter Name Study
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[send private message] and Jeff Carter [send private message]About the Project
The Carter Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Carter name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Carter name.
As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Carters), by time period (18th Century Carters), or by topic (Carter DNA,Carter Occupations, Carter Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.
Also see the related surnames and surname variants. To add a profile to the Study and Carter Category add the following text:
How to Join
To join the Carter Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!
If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Jeff Carter for assistance.
Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:
Research Pages
Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!
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Related Surnames and Surname Variants
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Carter Progenitors with known yDNA Haplogroup
The links will bring you to public pages of the Carter Surname Project at Family Tree DNA.
The Time Tree link is only available if the Carter Progenitor has one or more descendants who have taken a Big Y test.
If your Carter family has a member who has taken a Y DNA test and has shared his FTDNA kit number on WikiTree, you can search for his kit number in the Y DNA charts.
You can also find the Carter Progenitor's descendants in the Y DNA charts by searching for the Group shown below.
There are over 800 kits in the project, so you may need to scroll to the bottom of the chart to go to the second page, or you can change the number of lines displayed at the top of the chart.
Carter men are encouraged to take a Y DNA test. A Y37 test from Family Tree DNA will group you with the Carter family you are related to and confirm your paper genealogy or show you have gone astray somewhere in your research. If you have a brick wall, a Big Y test may help you break it down if your Carter family has other men who have Big Y tests. Women who are researching their Carter family are encouraged to find a male Carter in their family who would be willing to test and you can be the manager of his kit.
For questions about Y DNA testing or the FTDNA Carter Surname Project contact: Russ Carter
- John Thomas Carter (1724-1778) R1b-UnGrouped[1]
- Paul Carter (abt.1620-abt.1664) Time Tree [2] Group E1b-03[3]
- Captain Thomas Carter of Barford, VA (1630-1700) Time Tree [4] Group R1b-04[5]
- Jacob Carter Colleton, South Carolina (abt. 1720- abt.1800) Time Tree [6] Group I1-03[7]
- Thomas Carter Isle of Wight, VA (abt. 1627 - abt. 1669) Time Tree [8] Group R1b-04[9]
- Thomas Carter Goochland, VA (abt. 1680 - abt. 1738) Time Tree [10] Group Q1-01[11]
- Giles Carter of Turkey Island, Henrico, VA (abt. 1634 - bef. 1702) Time Tree [13] Group R1a-02[14]
- Nicholas Carter Sr. NJ (abt. 1629 - abt. 1681) and cousin John Carter NJ (1703 - bef. 1762) and cousin Joseph Carter VA (1744 - abt. 1804) Time Tree [15] Group I1-01[16]
- George Carter Sr. Bradford, PA (1689 - 1726) Time Tree [17] Group I2b-04[18]
- William Carter Middlesex, VA (abt. 1660 - bef. 1711) and nephew(?) Benjamin Carter NJ (abt. 1700 - aft. 1754) Time Tree [19] GroupR1b-01[20]
- Nathaniel Carter Prince William, VA (abt. 1751 - abt. 1834) Time Tree [21] Group R1b-05[22]
- Isaac Carter Fauquier, VA (1773 - 1850) Time Tree [23] Group R1b-07[24]
- Thomas Charles Carter Charles County, MD (1748 - 1845) Time Tree [25] Group R1b-10[26]
- Barnett Bernard Carter Middlesex, VA (abt. 1737 - abt. 1814) Time Tree [27] Group R1b-11[28]
- James Carter Bucks County, PA (1670 - bef. 1715) Time Tree [29] Group R1b-20[30]
- John "The Vintner" Carter Newgate, London, England (abt. 1575 - 1630) John "The Vinter" was the grandfather of Colonel Robert "King" Carter I Corotoman Plantation, VA' Time Tree [31] Group R1b-32[32]
- Richard Carter (abt. 1621 - aft. 1677) Time Tree [33] Group R1b-21[34]
- Ezra Carter, Marathon, NY, died age 23 Civil War, looking for help to find a photo of him. Jan 23, 2019.
- What is the source of Picture wikitree.com/photo.php/e/e6/Carter-1548.jpg? Jul 3, 2018.
- Carter in Australia Jun 23, 2018.
- I'm looking for information about Francis Marion Carter he was married to Julian Ann Holden? Nov 5, 2017.
- Looking for info re James Thomas Carter born 1818 in SC Jul 6, 2017.
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I'm a volunteer administrator of the Carter surname project at FTDNA.
I truly appreciate your comment and I'll keep trying. Thanks!
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My GG Grandfather married Elizabeth Carter, Carter-33446, and Familysearch G9NL-HWQ. They were first spotted in Carter County TN in the 1840 Census. Rumor has it they were married in 1939. I have TWO death records listing her as a Carter, sadly we are unable to locate her parents AND their marriage records.
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I am a AA/Black Carter with family in Maryland and Virginia. My father is Milton G. Carter who was originally from Champlain VA. I only know that my father was raised by his maternal grandmother because his mom died in childbirth. Her name is Martha Carter. I wish I could trace my ancestry through the generations. I know very little of my ancestry and even if I were to trace my ancestry, I would most likely hit a brick wall because most enslaved people were considered property and many families were split up and sold to other plantations. Thorough reconstruction of our ancestry should be a part of any reparations package. It makes me sad that this country took advantage of my ancestors; even to the present day. BLM
There are a *ton* of Carters who identify as black! Many of them over the years have hit what they've called the 1870 Wall when doing paper trail genealogy, as the 1870 Census was the first that counted former slaves in the same fashion as everyone else. Going back before that, it gets difficult.
The good news is we now have DNA which for my purposes has been much more useful. We've been led to believe that all black folks in the US are descendants of slaves, or largely the product of non-consensual events under slavery, and this is simply not true. You may well find that your ancestors came here well after the US Civil War, or that your paternal line is unbroken from Africa (Chris Rock traced his back to Cameroon, for example). This was through the near-magic of DNA.
You will have the same Y-DNA as Milton G. Carter (it passes uncompromised from father to son). In turn, he will have the Y-DNA of his father, and on back through time way back before you will be able to trace via paper. Instantly, you will have more of your family story than you can read as you are connected to distant family who have been doing research on your family for years.
I am not directly affiliated with or paid by Wikitree or FTDNA or anybody in the business, but I have used many of these services and solved a paternal question of my own from four generations ago. It's never been cheaper to do a DNA test and I can not recommend it highly enough if you really want to know the answers.
If you are more interested in your mother's family, there are mitochondrial DNA tests that are also inexpensive that connect you to your maternal line.
Good luck!
His father was George Pinkney Carter b 1885 in Cleveland Co, Lawndale, NC, d 1955 in Columbus, GA His father: William Jackson Carter Jr. b 1845 in Cleveland Co, Lawndale, NC d 1924 in same. His father: William Jackson Carter Sr. b 1812 in either NC or SC, depending on which records you view, d 1886 in Cleveland Co, Lawndale, NC. He married Amy Hastings 1831 in Rutherford Co, NC, which is the first record of him I've uncovered. Rutherford Co. later split and the portion they lived in became Cleveland Co. The next records is the 1850 census record in Cleveland Co, NC and from there his live can be traced to his death, both he and his wife are buried on Carter Family property in same. My brick wall is the parents of William Jackson Carter Sr. Many, many people have his parents listed as William Carter & Mary Price of Rutherford Co, NC. who did, indeed, have a son named William Carter, b 1810, in same. However, I totally disagree with them being the parents of my Wm Jackson Carter Sr because: 1) The date of birth of their Wm is 2 years off from my William 2) Their son Wm. had the middle initial M which I discover is for Madison 3) Wm Carter & Mary Price moved to Habersham Co, GA, along with their son Wm Madison Carter, and all of them can be traced to their deaths and burial in the same. 4) It's highly unlikely Wm Carter and Mary Price would name two (2) living sons born back to back, two years apart, William. I would accept it more readily is their first born Wm died, but he didn't. Perhaps the mystery can be resolved here with your help My DNA is available on this site, as is my brothers, Joseph Mark Carter, who tested the Y-DNA with FTDNA. All has been uploaded to GEDMATCH and MyHeritage and Ancestry. I recently tested with CRI Genetics in hopes of new clues.
I am a Carter by birth as well, but oddly enough my Y-DNA says this doesn't really matter. I ran this down and it turns out about four generations ago there was a good old fashioned Uncle Dad situation and the resultant children were adopted by the maternal grandfather, who was a Carter. My actual paternal line is Stephens, and my Carters were maternal even though I'm Jeff Carter. I've written about this at length elsewhere, but my point is that I hope over time the DNA tools and the efforts of Wikitree will clean up a lot of listed things that are just impossible.
Henry James Carter Birth ( about) 1837 Albany, Upstate NY. USA Died 8th November 1912 Sydney Australia. Was 85 years old when died.
John Thomas and Jane (Thompson) Carter and their two sons, of Skelton, Yorks., settled at Westmoreland Point.22 Their names do not appear in the surviving passenger lists for the period 1772-1775. This may imply that they were on a ship such as The Duke of York, for which there is no list, or that they arrived before 1772 or after 1775.
http://www.libris.ca/yrkfam/yrkfam.htm