13. If you are not already a member of the DENNEY/DENNY SURNAME LIST at Rootsweb, we encourage you to join by performing one of the following steps, using your email program:
a. For letter mode (to receive only one message at a time), just send an email to DENNEY-L-request@rootsweb.com
b. For Digest Mode (bundled messages for each day), send an email to DENNEY-D-request@rootsweb.com 
A WORD OF CAUTION BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO JOIN THE DENNY DNA SURNAME TEST GROUP
There is always a possibility that you could get disappointing DNA test results. Samples that vary by three or more markers from the main group may do so for a number of reasons. One possibility is that they represent distinct lines that are either older or younger than the currently observed most frequent DENNY line. Another is that there has been a "non-paternal event" at an unknown past time. There are several possible types of non-paternal events (in addition to a pregnancy that occurred outside of normal marriage). For example, a child may be adopted and given the DENNY name; a man may take the DENNY surname when he marries a DENNY daughter; a DENNY man may marry a pregnant woman whose husband has died; a couple where the wife or grandmother is the DENNY may choose to give their children the DENNY surname for various reasons; a clerical error in recording administrative data may assign a DENNY name to the wrong person; babies could have been switched at birth; etc.
It should be stressed that adoptions were quite common in every era (i.e., parents died by disease or war and a relative took the children and raised them with their name; or young daughters had a child out of wedlock and the parents raised it as their own).
Some may not want to see a result indicating a "non-paternal event" but we are all legal DENNY's, and a small sample size could be misleading. One may get a DNA sequence which suggests a "non-paternal event" but they could be out of the original blood DENNY line. Let me explain: Twenty people are tested and 19 are very similar but the last is clearly different. It could turn out that the 19 descend from the same person 300 years ago and this person was an adopted DENNY, while the other is of the original blood line going back 800 years.
CONFIDENTIALITY
GENERAL INFO
DNA HERITAGE LINKS
FAMILY TREE DNA LINKS
REQUIRED FORMS TO JOIN
IF YOU STILL WISH TO PROCEED WITH DNA TESTING, YOU ARE A DENNY MALE OR HAVE A TEST VOLUNTEER, AND YOU ARE ABLE TO PAY FOR THE TEST (SEE THE DNA FAQ BUTTON) IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.
5. Select the "Submit" button and within a few days, you will receive a DNA test kit from Family Tree DNA via regular postal mail. a . At the left side of the STEPS TO JOIN THE DENNY DNA PROJECT page, click on the "WAIVER FORM" button. You will have choices to electronically fill out on the form and you can then submit it. Or, if you have problems with this, print out, read, complete and sign the form and mail the completed form to Steven Denney. The form must be signed by the person taking the DNA test. b . For experienced computer-literate genealogists, we would also like a GEDCOM file of your Denny ancestry from yourself to your eldest known Denny male ancestor, so that we can add your test data to our website as soon as it is ready at Family Tree DNA. If you cannot produce a GEDCOM file, simply click on the button titled "ANCESTOR REPORT FORM" and fill in the blanks for your Denny ancestors. Or, if you have problems with this, print out, complete and mail the Ancestor Report Form to Steven Denney. (If you are having another Denny male tested, the Ancestor Report should be for him, and he must sign both the Waiver Form and Information Release Form.) If you don't have a pedigree chart or GEDCOM file, you can still participate in the Denny DNA Surname Project, but others may not be able to see how they might connect to your family tree. We also will probably not be able to analyze your DNA results. c . In addition, select the "INFORMATION RELEASE FORM" button. You will have choices to electronically fill out on the form and you can then submit it. Or, if you have problems with this, print out, read, complete and sign the form and mail the completed form to Steven Denney. The form must be signed by the person taking the DNA test.
7. You will soon receive a DNA test kit in the mail. (Click "HERE"
8. Family Tree DNA's lab at the University of Arizona will analyze your DNA and send your test results to you, plus a copy will be sent to Steven Denney & Barbara Denny George, the Denny DNA project administrators. FTDNA will also notify you directly if someone else in their database matches your results fairly closely.
9. You can check your DNA results directly on the Family Tree DNA Website (about halfway down on the right side, type in the codes that Family Tree DNA sent with your test results and select the
Submit
button). You will also receive a copy of your DNA test results via postal mail. (Click
"HERE"
11. Once you have received your Y-DNA results, we recommend that you visit
ybase.org 12. Your DNA TEST RESULTS will be posted to the Denny Surname Project website (select the button DNA TEST RESULTS to view them) and IF you have signed the release and waiver forms, your contact information will also be there so that others who find Denny DNA matches can contact you directly. To answer this question you need to know who the participants are, so that you can collaborate with them on your Denny line(s). All participants are encouraged (but not required) to provide contact information so that they and others can share genealogical information on their Denny line. After your DNA test information is received from Family Tree DNA, it will be posted to our website and you will have the opportunity to review your Denny DNA test results, as compared to others. If you have provided a RELEASE and WAIVER form, the information you have allowed us to use will be posted along with your DNA test data. No contact information will be provided without a WRITTEN RELEASE and WAIVER form from you. 
GENERAL DNA INFO
Only the person providing the DNA sample and the Project Administrator will You may have noticed that one of our overall Denney DNA Surname goals is to determine which Denny researchers should be collaborating because they share a common ancestor (which was determined via DNA testing/analysis).
PLEASE NOTE
1.Click on the PRINTER FRIENDLY button and print out a hard copy of the Join Steps to enable you to follow these steps after you leave this page.
2.Click on the
"JOIN DENNY FTDNA PROJECT"
button.
3.Here you will see details about the Denny/Denney DNA Project and the tests available. Do not select the 12 marker test, a 25 marker test is required to join the project. The 37 or 67 marker test is recommended.
4.Select the type test you would like and proceed with the sign up procedures. For the payment type, select "INVOICE" if the person taking the test is not the one paying for it. Review the information, note that if the DNA test is being paid for by another person, that billing should be for the person paying the costs of tests.
6. While you are waiting for your DNA test kit, please take time to do the following: This page last modified on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
