Tretower Genealogy Research

This previous June I began selling copies of my Vaughan book on CD and did fairly well.  One interesting development was the formation of a new group based on matching genetic signatures to our William and John Vaughan descendants.  After one Vaughan descendant noticed that his Vaughan Y-DNA matched several Stephens and Hoopers, he contacted them and soon the idea of a group to look at the genetic profile emerged.  Rusty Vaughan, Ed Martin and myself formed two groups actually.

The Stephens/Vaughan Yahoo group set up like Vaughan Pioneers, and Ed Martin’s Wales and Southwest England Y-DNA group.   This second group is a Family Tree DNA group to compare the matching DNA.  We’ve formulated a Modal Haplotype of the matching men and suspect that there is some sort of a common ancestor either in the Breckon region around Tretower and/or in the Bristol Channel region of England.  We have some demographics to hint at this.  The group is rather new, and we would like to get all matching Vaughans, Hoopers and Stephens (and others who match) to join this FTDNA group.  I’ll try to post a hyperlink to the Links column on this page.

Also this month, I began tabulating results for 67 marker and 37 marker Phylogenetic Trees, which are very helpful in Genetic Genealogical research.  Results have been posted to both the Vaughan Pioneer and Stephens/Vaughan research groups.

Eddie Davis