Note: Links to the project's results pages (Results Diagrams, Results Tables, etc.) appear in a separate window obtained by clicking on Results Directory above.
Users of the web site will find the Navigating information reached via the Help link above very helpful in understanding how to navigate among the results pages and view them side-by-side to gain a good understanding of the project's results.
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Purpose
The purpose of this project is to explore how genetics can help
elucidate the genealogy of the Ewing families of
Scotland, Ulster, America and the world. Most of
our participants so far are American, but we
welcome the participation of Ewings everywhere.
We are especially interested to have the
participation of Ewings from Ireland and
Scotland who know their genealogies back to 1700
or before, because we think this can help us
trace the deep origins of many Ewing families.
Already we have participants from Canada,
Scotland, England and New Zealand--where are you
Ireland and Australia? We also hope to
understand better what the relationship may be
between Ewing, Ewen and McEwan in any of their
variant spellings. Analysis of Y-DNA samples
from men who have well-documented conventional
genealogies will allow us to solve some thorny
old genealogical puzzles about the relationships
among many different Ewing lines. Genetic
genealogy will never replace conventional
genealogy, but it is a useful tool for
determining what line to focus on for
conventional research, and it will sometimes
help a genealogist break through a maddeningly
tenacious genealogical brick wall.
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Group Administrator
The projct's group administrator is David Neal Ewing, who is
primarily responsible for the content of this
web site. Neither Dr. Ewing nor the Ewing
Family Association benefit financially in
any way from the DNA project and all the work
you see here was done by volunteers. DNA testing
costs money, but project participants purchase
this testing directly from testing laboratories,
mainly from
Family Tree DNA, the vendor that
hosts our project. Neither Dr. Ewing nor the
Ewing Family Association have any financial
interest in
Family Tree DNA. We welcome feedback
and suggestions, and we would really
welcome volunteers who would like to help with
the project and web site. Contact DavidEwing93 at
gmail dot com, or call him at +1.505.764.8704
weekends or evenings before 9 PM Mountain Time.
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Results
The
project now has over one hundred participants,
including three named Ewin and one each named
Ewan, Ewen and McEwan. We have concluded based
on the results of DNA testing that about two
thirds of these men are probably related to one
another within a genealogical time frame. In
addition to the large cluster, there are some
smaller clusters of related men. For the sake of
discussion, we have divided the participants
into Groups, which are comprised as explained in
Results Introduction. Group Relationship
Diagrams have been prepared to show conventional
genealogic relationships between those
participants we know to be related on
conventional grounds. Finally, Lineage Charts
have been supplied by most project participants
and are posted on the web site. We urge first
time users of the web site to have a look at the
Help page to understand how the results
pages are organized. Experienced researchers who
are interested in our
raw data can download an Excel file of the
results. A set of links to all of the Results
Pages can be reached by clicking
here
or on the
Results Directory link that appears at the very top of
this page (as well as at the very top of all other pages
in this web site).
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Resources
For
those interested in learning more about DNA
testing for genealogical purposes in general or
about the rationale and implications of the
Ewing Project in particular, a number of
resources are available. Project coordinator
David Neal Ewing has written a series of
Project
Articles, which were published in the Journal
of Clan Ewing and its successor, the
Journal of the Ewing Family Association, and
are posted on this web site. A number of
Related
Articles have been commissioned by the project
and are also posted on this web site. Links to
pertinent articles in the scientific literature
are also offered, as are links to a number of
other web sites and on-line resources about
genetic genealogy and anthropological genetics.
Finally, a number of Tools useful for working
with genetic data are discussed and links for
finding them are offered; these tools may be
accessed by the links under the heading Tools in the
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