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Join the Germanna DNA Project

December 10, 2015 By Steven Hein

Since 1956, the Germanna Foundation has published hundreds of years of genealogy across thousands of pages in twenty volumes of research and is in the process of expanding our database of over 100,000 known descendants.  Now, modern science has developed the new tool of DNA testing to expand beyond the limits of genealogy, as Dr. Spencer Wells of the National Geographic Genographic Project explains in this video:

You and your family’s participation in the Germanna DNA Project will coordinate research collected by distant cousins, confirm relationships based on written records, complement our archaeology project, and advance our understanding of the deep ancestry of the Germanna colonists.

As this project develops, it is quite possible that the Germanna DNA Project could prove to be the largest and most illuminating of the DNA projects of interrelated families in Europe and America: we presently have 621 participants in the project.

More information about the project, the DNA tests available, and what you may learn about your own ancestors is available through the website of our testing partner Family  Tree DNA.  (Family Tree DNA is also the testing partner for National Geographic’s Genographic Project.)

If you’ve done DNA testing through another source, you may still share your results with the Germanna DNA Project, and we encourage you to do so!  Go to the Family Tree DNA Germanna Project site, and scroll down to the Third Party section for information about transferring DNA test information from 3rd parties.

Share your discoveries through the Germanna DNA Project, and help us discover more about our Germanna family saga.

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LOCATION: 2062 Germanna Highway
Locust Grove, VA 22508-0279
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The Germanna Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the Colonial Virginia frontier via the historic 1714 Fort Germanna and its German colonists and their descendants.

It conducts archaeological exploration and conservation, genealogical research and publishing, and historic preservation and interpretation.

The Foundation owns and maintains several historic sites and properties, such as Salubria Manor, that were part of or closely connected to the Germanna colonies, the town of Germanna, and the other early colonial Virginia settlements and towns in the Piedmont area of Virginia.

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