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The Britton International DNA Project and One-Name Study are accepting applications for  free Y-DNA tests from Brittons, Brittains, Brettons. Bretons, etc. (all variants of the name are included) who can prove descent from a Britton, Brittain, Breton, etc. male born in England c 1837 or before.

Please note that the individual tested must a male with the name Britton or one of its many variants.

For more information, please write to Dr. Lindsey Britton.  You may send me a personal reply through RootsChat or e-mail me from the Britton One-Name Study or the Britton International DNA Project at Family Tree.

Lindsey Britton

Dear Rootschat Members,

I am posting this message for Dr. Kenneth Nordtvedt who is not a member of this forum.  He is one of the best-known researchers for Haplogroup I and would greatly appreciate seeing raw data files for anyone in Haplogroup I who has taken Chroma 2.0 from BritainsDNA.  This test is proving to be of the greatest value in identifying SNPs in both I1 and I2, and the more files he has for analysis and comparison, the greater the value of the information provided by the test.  So sharing will help you just as much as it will help Haplogroup I research.

If you have a file to share, please send me a private message and I will give you Dr. Nordtvedt's e-mail address.

Thank you.

Lindsey Britton
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Message from Kenneth Nordtvedt:

"Chromo2 test contains over 14,000 Y snps. Comparing seven raw data files of
 results from this chip, we have been able to see how fertile the chip has
 been for haplogroup I; the locations we have been able examine have been
 quite dense with new y snps. The maker of the Chromo2 chip had a goal to
 produce a test particularly fruitful for folks from northern Europe and
 British Isles, so they first searched for new snps accordingly and then
 salted their discoveries into the Chromo2 chip.

 You can see the new snps from Chromo2 appropriate to several sectors of
 haplogroup I in my files:

 "Tree for Isles L161"
 "Chromo2I1work"
 "Chromo2M223work"

 found at website http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net/

 The L161 sector, the Z73 sector of I1, the Z138 sector of I1, the L126
 Isles Scot of the M223 sector, and the Roots of the M223 sector are all
 found to have many new snps. These results were obtained by comparing
 seven Chromo2 raw data files I was able to receive from people. I am
 grateful to those who shared their data.

 To see how these many new Chromo2 snps further split our presently known
 clades, we however need more Chromo2 raw data files to put into the
 comparison spreadsheet. 

If you have Chromo2 results please send me your raw
 data file. Your contribution will be valuable
 regardless of where in haplogroup I you reside, but especially so if you
 fall in one of these sectors of the haplogroup previously mentioned.

 I will publically present all findings in the formats I have already started
 to set up in the named files above.

 I was told that approximately 200 haplogroup I results were sent out
 recently by BritainsDNA and their cohorts, ScotDNA, IrishDNA. Only seven
 have been compared so far in the public arena. Imagine how much more we can
 learn with more results brought into the comparisons. We can bring some
 sectors of the haplogroup I tree right down into the historic era and close
 to the genealogical era.

Kenneth Nordtvedt"

Fern Britton and cousin Nigel Britton of Britton's Loft descend from William Britton born c 1820 at Birmingham and wife Frances Smith through their son Charles Britton b 1852.   

The Britton DNA Project and One-Name Study would like to hear from other descendants or anyone else who has information on this family.

Lindsey Britton

The Britton project has been reorganized to emphasize genetic lineages with at least two or more members.  There are 10 of these Britton lineages in the project along with 20 individual Brittons who do not yet have a DNA match for a total of 30 unrelated Britton haplotypes or DNA signatures. 

Of the 10 family groups, six (Groups 1,4, 5,6,7, and have already identified an ancestor who was born in England,  and five have identified the English birthplace of that ancestor. Three of these Britton families go back to the 16th century, one to the 17th century, and one to the 18th century.  Group 9 traces descent from an ancestor born in Ireland in the 18th century, and one branch of Group 3 claims descent from an ancestor born in France c 1635 whose descendants settled in South Carolina in the late 17th century.  The other branch of Group 3 traces to an ancestor born c 1720 or before and living in Norfolk, VA in 1736.  The earliest-known ancestor of only two of our Groups is presumed to have been born in America.

While the majority of our members may be American, the majority of our most-distant-known ancestors are British. 

DNA Projects aren't for Americans only--they are for everyone interested in genealogy.

Lindsey