Genetically Confirmed McCarter Lines
Through autosomal DNA testing at both 23andMe and Ancestry we have matched with distant cousins and genetically confirmed these ancestors.
Third Great Grandparents
Mary Jane "Polly" McClure and Drury Senter
Fourth Great Grandparents
Patience Bourne and Jonathan Thomas
Sarah Greer and David Pugh
Fifth Great Grandparents
Uriah Ledyard and John Marks
Seventh Great Grandparents
Sarah Day and John Greer
Ninth Great Grandparents
Rebecca Tracy and William Merrick
Catherine Wheldon and Giles Hopkins (Mayflower)
Tenth Great Grandparents
Mary and Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower)
Margaret and Garbriel Wheldon
Tryphosa Lee and Stephen Tracy
Mary Durrant and William Ring
McCarter Haplogroup
Through Family Tree DNA's Big Y-700 test (dna passed from Philander McCarter to his direct male descendants) we learned that our haplogroups through the ages are as follows:
RM207>M173>M343>L754>L761>L389>P297>M269>L23>L51>P310>
L151>P312>Z290>L21>S552>DF13>FGC11134>FGC12055>Z3026>
Z16250>A114>CTS4466>S1115>Z3023>A212>A7699>FT16800>FTF72887
You can Google any of the above haplogroups to learn more about them.
FTF72887 is our terminal haplogroup and represents just one of the 75,000 branches of the Tree of Mankind. We share this haplogroup with just one other man with whom we have a common ancestor born circa 1150 AD. Because our oldest known ancestors were both born in the U.S. we don't know where this medieval ancestor lived, but it was likely Ireland.
The previous haplogroup FT168000, which represents a common ancestor born circa 650 AD near County Caven, Ireland, has spread throughout northern Ireland where it is still found today.
It's possible that some day we'll have another match who brings us further into the future. It should be noted that one thing this Y-DNA testing definitely shows is that we do not match any of the other large McCarter families who were present in Colonial America.
McCarter-Tharp Ethnicity
These are the ethnicity results of a first generation McCarter-Tharp descendant and gives us some idea of where our line of McCarter-Tharp ancestors originated. This is an emerging science and the results will likely become more definitive with time. So far Family Tree DNA has pinpointed French, Orcadian, Basque, Spanish, Tuscan, Finnish, Romanian, and Sardinian ancestry.
| Western European | 30.29% | South Asian | 1.21% |
| North Sea | 29.06% | Southwest Asian | 0.55% |
| Mediterranean | 15.18% | Siberian | 0.15% |
| South Baltic | 12.35% | East Asian | 0.15% |
| Volga-Ural | 6.68% | North American Indian | 0.10% |
| Caucus | 4.27% | West African | 0% |
| Generated by the Eurogenes K12 model created by Davidski/Polako. | |||
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