Reitz Name Study
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About the Project
The Reitz Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Reitz 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 Reitz 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 Reitzes), by time period (18th Century Reitzes), or by topic (Reitz DNA, Reitz Occupations, Reitz 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.
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Jacqueline
My report lists three branch participants. Two identify Germany as the country of paternal ancestors and one lists Hungary. I'm guessing that you must be one of those listing Germany and the person identifying Hungary on my report is also the person on your report!
I have no downstream SNPs. I'm eager, though, to see what we can figure out. My block tree is awfully barren. I can tell you that my 4X paternal great grandfather, whose surname I do not know, was likely from Kaiserslautern, Germany, or nearby. My 4X great grandmother (Anna Maria Gude) did not marry him when their son, Peter, was born in Kaiserslautern in 1798.
I don't expect that I'll ever learn his identity, but it would be great to determine a surname. Any chance you had paternal DNA ancestors in the Rhineland Pfalz area during that period? Maybe we can help each other identify a missing link!
Best wishes, Gary Gute
I have been studying his descendants for over 25 years, now about 14,500, about 3500 born Reitz/Reits/Wrights (all known to be George's family), plus another 300 of Friedrich Reitz's family (once thought to be George's brother) descendants. In my relatives file, I track Reitz males as far as practicable, and try to track females to about three generations into their married families, so 21,000 families and 32,000 people. Most of the descendants were found one-by-one, with data - not copying family files.
Because I kept encountering U.S. Reitzes who were ultimately found to be descendants of other immigrants, I created a separate family file with lines of several hundred different Reitz immigrant families, and I'm sure there are more. I'd like to find some way to share that info.
For these Reitzes, I follow the males as far as possible, and females to their marriages into other families, including their children if possible. That's now about 7,000 born Reitz, about 9,800 including female spouses who married a Reitz. Including children and spouses parents, about 14,600 people.
I recently had autosomal, mitochondrial, and deep Y (Y-700) DNA tests. My hope was to determine whether there was any DNA connection to any of these 'other' Reitzes. [Almost certain those from Bieber are related.] It is at least 8 generations back in the past to any potential fork to others who came here, so I had the most extensive Y-DNA analysis short of full genome.
Working with a Reitz female whose family were descendants of Johan Friedrich Reitz of Lohrhaupten, once though to be 'George the immigrant's brother. We matched 103 of 111 STR markers, and our Y-700 results show (matching surnames), 6 non-matching SNPs, and 873674 shared variants. Being two of us this close, they created a new terminal SNP – R-BY7749.
Since we learned that George, my ancestor, was from Bieber (Büchelbach), I'm certain there's relationship to several other Reitz families also from Bieber. I'd sure like to see those other Bieber Reitzes get a Y-700 test!
edited by Paul Reitz