Stevenson - Stephenson DNA Group Project

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Welcome to our Wikitree DNA Group Project for all of our Stevenson/Stephenson cousins!

This collaborative space is designed to add to the work already done (and in progress) on the FTDNA Stevenson-Stephenson Y-DNA Project. If you are interested in Stevenson lineages, whether they are recent or ancient, please contact the Group Administrator for more information. Y-DNA testing of Stevenson-Stephenson surname males can tell you a lot about your family origins, and can help grow the Stevenson branches on the haplotree!

FTDNA Project Website: <https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/stevenson/about>

FTDNA hosts the Stevenson-Stephenson surname project for men who have Y-DNA tested. The project groups members together by degree of relatedness using both STRs and SNPs.

The charts might look confusing at first, but the groupings are relatively straightforward. Historically, men whose STRs are similar have been grouped together - these are men who have tested at the Y-12 to Y-111 levels. More recently, the newer SNP tests have allowed for more specific grouping into family groups or subclades - these are for the men who have a Big Y-500 or Y-700 test.

Any Stevenson/Stephenson male who has tested - or anyone who manages a Stevenson/Stephenson Y DNA test - is welcome to join our project. By comparing both genetic and genealogical information (from your submitted family trees) we can reach back further in time to connect our ancestors!

While the FTDNA project is limited to Y-DNA results, we are using our project space here at Wikitree to add additional information that will inform and assist autosomal test takers, or even those family researchers who have not yet tested.

First Quarter 2024 update: During the first quarter of 2024, our project:

- Added several new members - welcome!

- Posted three Big Y test results

- Saw additional project members receive FF predicted halpgroups

- Had multiple members order test upgrades or add-ons

- Welcomed a project donation - thanks!

If you know of a Stevenson, Stephenson or Stinson male who might be interested in tracing his patrilineal line through Y DNA testing, we would love to have him in our project! And if you are a Stevenson, Stephenson, or Stinson researcher working with autosomal tests at any of the major companies, reach out to us through our project e-mail and we would be happy to compare notes.

January 2024 update: Project members who have STR-only tests at FTDNA might get an unexpected bonus if they have also Family Finder tested, or uploaded an autosomal test and paid an unlock fee. This month the first of our project members to receive a mid-level haplogroup from a Family Finder test moved to a more recent branch on the giant haplotree of mankind. More to follow!

December 2023 update: Our project now has 52 distinct confirmed Y DNA haplogroups. Our largest group of testers are the 104 men who fall under the R-M269 (R1b) higher-level haplogroup, with our 81 I-M253 (I1) men our second-largest group. In our third largest group, our I-M223 (I2) testers, half of the men have Big Y tested, adding considerable definition to the I-M223 branch of the haplotree.

How do all of these other tests help us? As the saying goes, genealogy is a team sport - and Y DNA research absolutely advances faster when we can put together a 'team' of matches who fall along our patrilineal lines. Each STR test helps us find new matches, and each SNP test grows the haplotree, making it easier for us to predict the branch where our STR tests might belong!

November 2023 update: Thanks to all of our members who have upgraded to a Big Y test! Currently 45 of our 220 project participants have Big Y tested. This has helped all of us, because many of our project members who have tested STRs but not SNPs have a close STR match who now has a terminal SNP and has been placed on the haplotree.

The next-best thing to knowing who our ancestors were is knowing where they came from! The haplotree may not give us names and exact dates, but using free Discover tools such as the time tree can help us narrow down when and where our shared ancestors lived.

Links to Stevenson - Stephenson Patriarchs represented in our project:

Haplogroups are predicted for these men based on test results of one or more descendants. Several of the men listed below have multiple tested descendants with well documented trees linking them to this ancestor.

I-M223

Hugh Stephenson (1765-1841)

I-M253

John Stephenson Jr (1656-abt.1727)

John Stephenson (1680-bef.1737)

John Stephenson (abt.1724-1773)

John Stevenson Jr. (1750-1851)

William H (Stephenson Sr) Stephenson SR (bef.1770-bef.1840)

William Stevenson (1768-1857)

Charles Andrew Stevenson (1765-1830)

James Stephenson (abt.1765-abt.1836)

Thomas Stephenson (abt. 1740-1796) - father of 1776 James

James Stephenson (abt.1776-1833)

Henry J. Stevenson (abt. 1789-1820)

Samuel Stevenson (abt. 1789-1850)

R-M269

William Stevenson I (1725-1809)

Robert Stephenson (abt.1740-abt.1793)

Richard Stephenson (abt. 1716-1765)

Thanks for visiting our wikitree page, and thanks to wikitree for hosting us!

If you are a project member, you may add the lineage you submitted to our project along with the last three digits of your kit number below.

Kit ending in ...990

• Name: Private
• E.K.A. :  William Stevenson 1768-1857 (Stevenson-768)
• Country: Unknown
• Haplogroup: I-BY144497 confirmed
• Lineage beginning with EKA:
  • 1. William Stevenson 1768 SC -1857 Claiborne, LA m Jane Campbell
    2. Henry Walker Stevenson 1815 MO - 1884 Wood, TX m Ellender Hogland
    3. William Campbell Stevenson 1866 TX 1938 Rockwall, TX m Penelope Taylor
    4. Louis Stevenson 1897 Hunt, TX - 1958 Rockwall, TX m Nelle Curfman

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