STAPLES BARONETCY - Y67 GENETIC CONNECTION

09 September 2009
Arthur B. Staples, Jr., GA, Staples Surname & DNA Project (SSDP)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~staplessurname

Y-DNA MATCHES: Tested participants Haplogroup and Haplotype or genetic signature is defined by the DNA testing company.
Y-DNA matches can be easily analyzed by creating a Haplogroup Founder Modal, based on the Haplogroup of the tested participants, which will identify Genetic Family Tree and Family Branch Mutations that are changes from the Haplogroup Founder Modal in tested participants Haplotypes. This process is extremely valuable when analyzing small group's of participants.   

To discover if there is a Genetic Family Tree match it is important that the Genetic Family Tree Mutations match. However, based on past SSDP studies, it is possible that one out of several may have a one-step mutation but no two-step mutations.

Y-DNA results showing a match within a Genetic Family Tree are Biological and therefore cannot tell us who the common ancestor is that the tested participants match. Only pedigrees with family relationships proven at each generation by primary & secondary genealogical recorded information can tell us who, when and where the match took place.

Matches with other surnames may indicate a Genetic Family Tree relationship prior to the surname era of recording births and marriages for common people in England (1538) and thus if one participant has a pedigree back far enough in time it will help identify the ancestral home.   

HAPLOGROUP FOUNDER MODAL TABLE MUTATION HIGHLIGHTS:
YELLOW = Genetic Family Tree Mutations from the founder modal that the vast majority of the family group have;

BLUE = Genetic Family Branch Mutations from the founder group that the vast majority of the family group does not share; 

RED = Rare Genetic Mutations of 10% or less frequency of a population sample.  Rare mutations limit the number of matches in a database as the smaller the population percentage the less people will share the marker value. However if the rare mutation is within a genetic family tree mutation it strengthens the genetic family tree uniqueness.

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TABLE NOTES:
[1] Mutation Frequency Rank & approximate Percentage from 'R1b-U106/S21+Research Group' Individual Allele Statistics (PDF Forma, Chart) R-U106 and R-M269 Allele Percentage Histograms by Clinton Platt, 06 May 2009.
[2]Y-DNA data from the SSDP .

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GENETIC DISTANCE (GD):
We are primarily interested in the Y67-DNA results within a certain GD of participants that share our surname (or Variant). However, there are many documented reasons why some family surnames changed during the surname era. During this surname time frame our Genetic Family Tree has remained basically the same.  When a match is found to our Y67 Haplotype within a satisfactory Genetic Distance and also matches our Haplogroup Founder Modal genetic Family Tree mutations, it proves a biological relationship regardless of surnames.

Currently, our studies using a Haplogroup Founder Modal with pedigreed participants to a common ancestor show that while it possible to have a GD of up to 8 Mutations between participants, there is only a maximum GD of 4 to the head of the Genetic Family Tree. The Genetic Family Tree mutations are shared by the vast majority of members, however an occasional one-step mutation may show up, but no two-step mutations. Almost all of the mutations between participants are Genetic Family Branch mutations.

Rare mutations or mutations that have a Founder Modal Haplogroup sample frequency of 10% or less present in the Genetic Family Tree strengthen the groups' tree and the Genetic Family Branch mutations strengthen the participant's genetic branch because they limit the number of people who have the mutations.

Thus using a Haplogroup Founder Modal with mutation rankings and frequency percent to determine the Genetic Family Tree and its various Family Branch mutations, coupled with pedigrees to the most recent common ancestor results in a proven method of ancestral relationship        

PROVING A PEDIGREE:
Regardless of whether you are just beginning your genealogy research or a experienced family historian I recommend the following book.  GENEALOGICAL PROOF STANDARD, Building a Solid Case, by Christine Rose, CG, CGL, FASG (2005), “Dedicated to every genealogist with an ‘unsolved’ problem. That would include us all. I would think!” ISBN 0-929626-15-X.


SURNAMES & PEDIGREES:
SURNAMES: "The process by which surnames became fixed was prolonged and complicated. The fashion spread in southern England and East Anglia during the second half of the 13th century and the first half of the 14th century, but took another century to become widespread in northern England and lowland Scotland. By the 15th century most English people had acquired fixed hereditary surnames. But Welsh names did not take an English form until the 16th Century."
RE: Taken from The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History, received from Lionel West, Exeter, Devon Co., England.

PEDIGREES: Recorded information of children and parents at each generation is required to prove an unbroken lineage within a pedigree. In England the practice of recording surnames for marriages and christenings' for common people was started by the Church of England during the 16th century (1538) and spread very slowly.

Note: Since we need a proven pedigree at each generation to identify our ancestral lineage, most of us who descend from the common people of England will be extremely fortunate if we can prove our ancestral lineage back into to the 1500's.  
   
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STUDY:
FTDNA Y67-DNA is the only biological information provider for discovering and proving our Family History, however, it cannot tell us who our common ancestors are. Only genealogy records can tell us who, when and where our ancestors came from. This study takes into account both of these family history information providers.

BACKGROUND:
The 17^th Baronet of Lissan, Ireland has no heirs to continue the Baronetcy, a search for the 18^th Baronet, who would be a descendant of Thomas Staples who was created the 1^st Baronet in 1628 by Charles I, King of England, was initiated through the Staples Surname & DNA Project (SSDP) in May 2003. Using Y-DNA from participants with the surname Staples the following study results have been found.  

Y-DNA DATA:
The method of using the matching participants Haplogroup to generate a Founder Modal that is used to determine genetic family tree and branch mutations, as shown in this study, is an important analytical tool that leads to an accurate picture of genetic distance and thus - biological relationships.  

The Y67 test results for each Y67 participant shows that they share the same 4 genetic Family Tree mutations (Markers # 6, 12, 35 &55) from the Founder Modal.

The Y67 of Sir Richard has 2 genetic Family Branch mutations at marker # 15 & 24.

The Y67 of Garth has 3 genetic Family Branch mutations at marker # 30, 36 & 64.

The Y-67 of Sir Richard Staples is the presumed to be the oldest Y67, as it has one less Family Branch mutation when compared to the Founder Modal than that of Garth Staples.

A Genetic Distance of 5 between Sir Richard and Garth Staples at Y67 is considered by FTDNA as a relationship “likely within the range of most well established surnames lineages in western Europe.”

The above haplotype or genetic signature match is the only match for these two individuals in the FTDNA Y67 database on 09 Sept 2009 of 29,452, Y67 marker records. There are 2 more participants having Y25 test results which are an exact Y25 match in this SSDP family group.

Rare Mutations: All four participants (2-Y67 & 2-Y25) share a rare Family Tree mutation value of 4%, at marker # 12. Participant 9244 has a rare Family Branch mutation value of 3% at marker # 19. Participant 7114 has a Family Branch mutation of 7% at marker # 64.    

 

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GENEALOGICAL RECORDS:
Sir Richard Molesworth Staples, participant # 9244 (Y67) holds the recorded 17th Baronet of Lissan, Ireland pedigree to Sir Thomas Staples, created 1st Baronet of Lissan in 1628 by Charles I, King of England.

For more information about this Staples Family Lineage & History see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staples_Baronets

Garth Staples, participant # 7114 (Y67) and the 2 (Y25) participants, David Staples, SSDP # 14102 & Jerry Staples, SSDP # 14192, all have pedigrees descending from Mathew Staples, d. 1771, Belmont, NS. Canada, m abt 1766 Sidney Holmes, b. 1730, Donegal, Ireland, d. 1812, Onslow, NS, Canada.

For more information about this Staples Family History, contact Garth Staples, Family Historian.

CONCLUSION:
There is no doubt that a genetic relationship exists between these two families which would have taken place prior to the birth of Matthew Staples (d. 1771).

There is an ongoing genealogy search for records that can be used to prove the Peerage and Baronetage connection.

There is also an ongoing genetic search for more living members that descend from the Baronetcy.  

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