THE LYNNS OF Y-DNA HAPLOGROUP R-U198 The Family Name Lin - Lind - Line - Linn - Linne - Lyn - Lynd - Lyne - Lynn - Lynne
Copyright 2011, 2020 Loretta Lynn Layman
The Lynn surname has several completely different origins and even more variant spellings. In the English-speaking world, the spelling of surnames was relatively inconsistent even into the 19th century. This phenomenon is important to bear in mind, whether following a paper trail or studying your family's DNA portrait. However, it is the DNA itself which most reliably defines family relationships. The primary goals of this project are to identify and connect those Lynns, Linns, etc. who share a common ancestor, within the DNA haplogroup R-U198, and to discover where our family's origin lies. Our most important tools are the Y-DNA results and the phylogeny [the evolutionary history of an organism]. Certain R-U198 Lynns have known Scottish and/or Ulster Scottish connections. At the same time, the Y-DNA results for all known R-U198 Lynns suggest that they share a common Lynn ancestor in about the 15th century and possibly longer. In Scotland, even as recently as the 16th century, only royals, nobles, and aristocrats had hereditary surnames. Of particular interest is the fact that our surname is proven by extant medieval-era documents to be a heritable surname in the Scottish Lowlands from as early as 1175 with one Lynn family among the aristocracy. The paper trail for R-U198 Lynns is also vital. While DNA provides estimates of the time within which specific individuals share a common ancestor, the historic documents and records are needed to corroborate those estimates and refine them into lineages. There are at this site reliable histories of six of our group's most distant known ancestors (with more to come), including citations to some or all of the sources for their respective paper trails. It is hoped that, eventually, it will be possible to connect some of these ancestors to each other. For now, there are three large branches within the R-U198 Lynn family with certain descendants for whom the Y-DNA has already proven vital to confirming paper trails and establishing precise relationships. Our Y-DNA Haplogroup R-U198
Contact : Lynn/Lyne/Linn/Lind Group Administrator : Lynneage @comcast.net
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