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About MAY families and DNA .

For several years, I have been involved in what became a pretty large project.    Myself and other MAY started a Genealogical DNA project.    

   http://www.richmark.com/q/maytree/May-Reconstruction.html

Today, as I start this Blog, we have 264 with the last name MAY or a variant  MAYE, MAYS, MEY,  participating in our project.     

I been aware, if you visit the website, it seems to have so much information and navigating though all numbers and descriptions of May families feels complicated.

Below you will find a chart, based on the information provided, of the Origin of the earlier MAY ancestor of each DNA family.

And a Phylogenetic tree of R1b (the largest May haplogroup) at 25 markers.
  
In 2006, I decided to organize all the information, and created a sort of Index cards for every MAY DNA family based on their unique DNA signatures, and group the participants into their corresponding DNA family.     Hoping it will make it more efficient and easy to look for our ancestral families.    

If you are already in this project, we can use this blog, to exchange information, and continue in our search for our May ancestors, even as I found out, we are many MAY families.      
In 2006 I could see we were 40 or more.

I beg for your patience, as It may take a few months, to scan and post all the charts and notes I made.    



It may be; you can, by looking at the geographical information, or names of ancestors, have a good idea if your May family is here.       In the DNA website, there are links, to get in touch, with researchers of each family, and I will refer you to it, to continue your search.         

And if you are unable to find them, you can join our group, by testing your DNA, and participating in our database.

Have to thank Mark May, and Gene May Boswell, as they both have contributed enormously in the creation of our Genealogical DNA website. 

Just as a reference.  I belong to DNA family 3.....My early ancestor was George May of Brocks Gap, Rockingham Co. Virginia b. ca. 1755.    His Great Grand son; My Great Grand Father Henry B. May, migrated to Guatemala in Central America to work in the Railroad.

My family lost all contact to our US May family, for almost 100 years.    Gene, connected me to the May family in Brocks Gap.    But it was not a 100% sure thing.
Until we tested our DNA, between my youngest son Zintis May, and our distant cousin Keith May.

It is my wish, this will help some of you, and any questions, just send me a note.

 Enrique Braxton May IV

Please Note: that every MAY DNA family has the number of the first participant, with that DNA signature.   As an example MAY DNA Family 3 group, consists of May participants 3,64,160,180 and 196, we all share the same DNA.
     

 Sorry, this is our DNA group, is family 3

Note: The first two numbers are the number of the participant in the DNA website.  (The ones with an S, are from Sorenson, another database) The last two numbers, are the DNA family group in my index cards.        R1b, is the largest Haplogroup some of the MAY belong to.     You can see how different families group themselves, and how far away the others are.   Indicating that it was very long time ago, that they may have been related.

Not all participants tested at 36 markers level.    This is a graph of the ones who did   R1b at 36 DNA markers.
Again, I am sorry, the numbers of the DNA families correspond to my index cards, I would try to load them as fast as I can in the next weeks.