The Halsted Trust continues to analyse the DNA results of men bearing the Halsted name and its variations. We now have two men born in England who match the Y-DNA of a large group of testers who were all born in the United States. These USA men appear to all descend from two cousins Jonas […]
Read more about "Further Appeal for DNA Testers"DNA testing in the north of England
Following the last post on DNA, this article goes into further detail on the findings in Yorkshire and other northern counties of England. When I joined the Halsted project there was already an established group of men who had tested and matched each other (not necessarily exact matches), although almost none of them were already […]
Read more about "DNA testing in the north of England"The Halsted DNA Project
As can be seen elsewhere on the Halsted Trust’s website, there appear to be three distinct areas where families of the name Halsted and its variants lived about 300 years ago. These are Yorkshire & Lancashire, Cumbria and Sussex. Essex may be another area of interest but that needs further investigation. Did they once, hundreds […]
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