Project Overview

Hello,

My name is William Bernard Allen and I am the creator of this blog and project manager for the Allen I2a1 Patrilineage Project. I live in Tampa, Florida but my Allen line jumps to Illinois from here and then down to Texas for several generations. Of course we eventually tie into the Allen's from North Carolina and Virginia.

I took a DNA test a year or so ago at familytreedna.com and joined the Allen Surname project.

The Allen Project has about 260 members and you can see the Y-Chromosome results if you follow the link I provide to the right on the front page and click on Y-DNA results. The particular line I am in and I believe you might be in is the Salmon colored group called I Subgroup A.

Luckily there are only 18-19 of us in that particular group so we don't have to sort out 260 trees. I have contacted all of these individuals and most have pooled together to consolidate our respective trees into one master tree. Now we all are genetically related, that's been proven with the DNA test, and most of us can trace our trees back to the same Allen's from North Carolina and Virginia. So the plan is to consolidate our trees into one master tree and come up with a family DNA signature.

If you have been forwarded this link, then you are either researching our Allen line or have taken a DNA test that ties you into our line. If you are an Allen male,you would need to test at familytreedna.com using at least a 37 marker test. Contact me or John Robb before you do, as the price for Allen project members is cheaper, $119 for a 37 marker test I believe. If you are a female and have no access to Allen male DNA to test, I would have to refer you to John Robb our professional on whether or not you can join the project.


Our professional Genealogist is John B. Robb. He will be doing the difficult job of creating the DNA signature and consolidating the tree.

I have added a link to his site.


- William Bernard Allen