You are invited to join our family history project if your surname is Hiley or Highley. This is an opportunity to make discoveries about your family tree, your surname, and the distant origin of the male line of your surname. By including your family tree in our project, you will learn more about your family history, as well as help us to find answers.
Questions
The Hiley Family History Project is global, and we are trying to answer these questions:
. How many different family trees exist in the world for the Hiley/Highley surname?
. Where was the most distant ancestor of each family tree located?
· As a result of historical migrations, where are branches of each family tree today?
· Which family trees are related?
· Where did the surname originate for each group of family trees that are related?
· How many different surname origins are there for the surnames in the project?
· What is the "distant" origin of the male line of each tree? This would be the time period before surnames.
Over a number of years I have built up a collection of family trees and I would like to invite you to include your own family tree in our project. This is an opportunity to make discoveries and contribute to the knowledge about your surname. The primary surnames in the project are Hiley and Highley. Other surnames may be included in the project if they are either known or suspected variants. A variant is a surname that developed from another surname.
There are two opportunities for you to participate.
Research
Research
Our first step is to research the direct male line of your family tree. A direct male line is a male with the Hiley or Highley surname, his father, his father, and so on back in time. I will need some basic information to get started with the research component of the project. The purpose of the information is to correctly identify your family tree, out of all the Hiley/Highley family trees so far identified. For living persons, only basic information is needed, like name and birth year. For prior generations, whatever you know is usually sufficient to get to work.
The direct male line will be researched. Since we are focused on the Hiley/Highley surname the other branches of the family tree are not researched. You will be provided with a summary of my research. The goal is to identify each Hiley/Highley family tree, worldwide. This information will enable me to determine how many different family trees exist. You will be provided with a summary of my research.
Which Trees are Related
The second component of our project is a genealogy DNA test, which tells us which trees are related. Participation in the genealogy DNA testing portion of the project is limited to those family trees which have not yet tested. The research step, besides identifying each family tree, tells us if a tree has tested.
If your tree hasn’t tested, then a male with the Hiley/Highley surname in your tree is invited to participate and take a genealogy DNA test to represent your family tree. The result is a string of 37 numbers representing locations on the Y chromosome, which is passed from father to son, typically unchanged. Since the surname follows the Y-chromosome, this genealogy test is used to determine which family trees are related and to verify the associated genealogy research. Only men have a Y-chromosome, so only men can take this test which contains no personal information. He will be a match or close match to those men to whom he is related. The result contains no personal information and an example is shown below. This is my own result.
13 23 14 10 13 14 11 14 11 12 11 28 15 8 9 8 11 23 16 20 28 12 13 15 16 10 10 19 21 14 14 17 22 35 37 12 10
The testing is done by Family Tree DNA of Houston, Texas, USA. A test kit is sent to you in the mail, and you swab the inside of your mouth and return the kit. When your results are ready, Family Tree DNA will provide you with a secure Personal Page, where you can log in and click Match, to see whom you match. Your matches will only see your name and email address, if you have one, and you will only see their name and email address. If you do not have Internet access, I will mail you a printout of your Match page, as well as other informational pages. Participants will receive a DNA summary along with their Research summary, explaining their matches and distant origin.
The cost of testing is paid for those males representing family trees which have not tested yet, or where additional males are needed to test in a family tree.
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