Kincaid Surname DNA Project
On 4 June 2001, the Kincaid Surname DNA project was started by Peter A. Kincaid as a means of learning more about the origins of the Kincaid family and its various lines existing today. This is done mainly using male Y chromosome STR testing. This was the 22nd surname project with Family Tree DNA and the project has consistently ranked high in terms of number of participants.
As of 12 October 2011, the project has results returned for 160 participants. Like most surname DNA projects, there has emerged more than one group of genetically related individuals. So far, the individuals have been assigned into nine groups labelled A to I. However, the bulk of participants fall within Group A; accounting for 101 individuals or over 63% of the participants. Group C is the next largest group with 21 participants, followed by Group B with 6, Group D with 5, Group I with 3, and Groups E, F, G and H with 2 participants each. There are 16 participants that returned results that are not closely related to any of individuals in Groups A to I nor to each other.
The results to date suggest that the patriarch of Kincaids of Scottish descent was the ancestor of Group A participants. Y chromosome SNP testing shows that Group A participants are part of Haplogroup R1b which is dominant in western Europe. Furthermore, further testing shows that Group A participants belong to the subclade R-L48 (aka R1b1b2a1a1d and R1b1b2a1a4) subclade commonly found in the Netherland, Denmark, north Germany and southwest England.
While Y chromosome DNA testing has been a great tool for sorting various lines of Kincaid, it has not shed any further light on the origins of Kincaids in Scotland. There are many scenarios of when and how the Kincaid patriarch entered the Strathclyde area of Scotland.
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