Duncan DNA Ancestor Project

Profile manager: Carrol Fish [send private message]

Overview

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the Duncan surname and its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board or G2G (tagged Duncan), add details of your name research, etc.

If you have the surname Duncan or the one of the variants in your family tree, I hope you will join our study and hlep build a valuble resource for people reseaching direct or related lines.

Participation

The basis of this study is to compare auDNA , YDNA and mtDNA kits to each other to determine where we connect with each other. To participate:

1. Request to add your Gedmatch number to the Gedmatch Ancestor Project - Duncan Ancestor DNA Project. Gedmatch
2. Using Y-DNA, join the Donnachiadh Y-DNA at Donnachaidh Y-DNA Project
3. Join the Duncan Ancestor DNA Project at FTDNA at: FTDNA Duncan Ancestor DNA Project Click on the project website line to add your kit to the group. If you are not already a member of FTDNA, we encourage you to upload your atDNA and join our group.
4. Add this category to your personal Wikitree page: Duncan_Name_Study_Members

Will you join me? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the Duncan name tag or send me a private message.

At the very least we seek to firmly show we have all the right people in place (family units) all confirmed via available written records and hopefully DNA DUNCAN confirmed.

Category Code

All you need to do is add the Study's WikiTree Category Code to the profiles of people you manage who were born with the surname or either of its variant spellings:

[[Category:Duncan Name Study]]

Just copy and paste that line immediately above the "== Biography ==" line of the relevant profiles that you manage. Simple and easy! This adds the profile automatically to the page that maintains a list of all associated profiles.

We also have subcategories to help organize individuals by the places they were born, died and their lising in the census records. You can see the existing place subcategories on the Study's main Category page, but we can create place subcategories as needed.

Profile Stickers

Sticker for Ancestral Profiles

This profile is part of the Duncan Name Study.

The first is specifically for Duncan (and spelled variant) lineages where you have already placed the Category statement in the profile. It shouldn't be used unless the Category designation is in place. But since the Category information now appears at the very bottom of the profile pages, you can add this sticker directly underneath the "== Biography ==" line to better highlight that the profile is part of the Study:

{{One Name Study|name=Duncan}}

Sticker for Your Own Profile

... ... ... is a member of the Duncan Name Study Project.

The second sticker is for use only on the profiles of living people who are participating in the Study. Like you! Again, paste it underneath the "== Biography ==" line:

{{Member|ONS|name=Duncan}}

It will look something like the second box on the right, but your name will be inserted automatically in place of the dots that you see.

Goals

This DNA Duncan Project is designed to get the descendants of the Duncan (and all the spelling variants) who immigrated to the United States to be confirmed via auDNA triangulation and Y-DNA, eventually connecting us to our cousins that live across the pond. This study seeks to use ALL of the available tools to accomplish this. You do not have to have a DNA test to participate, but it does help.

The project is to firm up all "unknown" confidence levels of these Duncan relatives to

• 1: Confident or ideally to
• 2: DNA Confirmed and turn the DNA ticker on.

Task List

Here are some of the tasks that I think need to be done. I'll be working on them, and could use your help

• Find Duncan descendants that have taken a DNA test. In Progress
• Invitation of DNA test takers to consent to upload raw data to GEDMatch for triangulation (and assist through the process).
  • Invite Duncan descendants to participate in our Duncan DNA confirmation project and WikiTree.
• Use clues provided by DNA to research for documentation.
• Add Duncans to WikiTree and place unconnected Duncan profiles in their family units.
• Improve unsourced and orphaned profiles.
• Use DNA triangulation to figure out and verify the MRCA and mark them DNA confirmed.
• Repeat the process to verify the next ancestor.

My hope is to help Duncan descendants solve their Duncan brick walls, and figure out what family groups our Duncan ancestors belonged to. Every one of our Duncan broken lines had parents - we just cant find them! According to Forebears over 177,000 people carry the Duncan surname in the United States and over 12,000 Duncan profiles in WikiTree. Alot of the records are muddied and uncertain in the early years of the US. Not all of us have taken DNA tests, but some have. Of those that have taken a DNA test, an even a smaller group is really interested in doing the genealogy research to find our family ancestors. If you are one of the ones that have an unbroken Duncan line, I envy you. I am one that has a broken Duncan line and have exhausted traditional genealogy methods. We aught to be able to get together to solve this!

If you are a Duncan descendant, I want to hear from you.

Duncan Progenitors with known yDNA Haplogroup

The links will bring you to public pages of the Clan Donnachaidh Y-DNA project. The project includes the surnames related to the Donnachaidh project:

• Duncan
• Dunshea
• MacDonagh
• McConnachie
• Reid
• Roberts
• Robertson
• Stark

This list contains the Earliest Paternal known ancestor.

Resources

• List of Duncans on Wikitree

• G2G feed of questions tagged "Duncan"

• Orphaned Duncan profiles on WikiTree.

• Unsourced Duncan profiles on WikiTree.

• Unconnected Duncan profiles on WikiTree.

Discussion Groups

|Scottish Clan Facebook Group

Duncan Surname facebook discussion group]

Research links

1. England National Archives
2. Duncan Association Newsletters by Mary Ann Dobson
3. The Genealogy Bug Duncan research files of Mary Ann (Duncan) Dobson

https://archive.org/details/descendantsofwil00royn by Nancy Reba Roy published in 1959

https://archive.org/details/historygenealogie00mill/page/644

http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/sjc.htm?fbclid=IwAR3nW6OA8b-V3XnZ6aM_kMGziZnkW41a8VoaquIpgGOSHR5MIs7RQ4ypAws Has data for Duncan families in early New England. - no documentation though.

https://www.hathitrust.org/

https://www.usgenweb.org/

https://archive.org/