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y-DNA Claims to Anabaptist Souder Families

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Introduction

The FTDNA Souder Surname DNA Project [1] identifies a number of different families carrying the Souder surname (or a variant). Of these, two appear to be confirmed as having an association with Anabaptist churches. They are identified in y-DNA studies as Groups 2 and 6.[2]

Group 2

Descendants of Jacob Souder (c.1680-c.1737) - G haplogroup

Group 6

Descendants of Casper Sauder (c.1726-c.1793) - R1b haplogroup

Jacob Sowder (c.1734-1818) of Virginia

Two conflicting claims are made to the family of Jacob Sowder (c.1734-c.1818) of Virginia :

  1. One of these is in Group 2, but is very distantly related to the others (common ancestor estimated to have been born c.1350).[2]
  2. Another (Group 8) is in the R1b haplogroup but unrelated to any other Souder lines.[2]

Jacob of VA has been popularly supposed to be a son of Jacob Souder (c.1680-c.1737) (ancestor of the G haplogroup). However, this is not supported by either of the claims noted above.

Sources

  1. FTDNA Souder Surname DNA Project viewed at https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/souder/about
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Souder, Mary Fern (2015). "Cousins with the Right Stuff : The Souder Family" viewed at http://www.maryfern.com/souder-y.htm




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