Surnames Pitts, Pitt, Pits, Pittes, and Pytts.
The Pitts DNA Project welcomes all participants. We encourage you to join today!
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Our project is growing, and we expect to have many exciting discoveries.
Participating provides an opportunity to uncover information not provided in the paper records, which will help with your family history research. We will also discover which family trees are related and as the project progresses, the results for the various family trees will provide information about the evolution of the surname.
The Pitts DNA Project is working with the Pitts one-name study, which is registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies, London England. The surnames Pitts with variants Pitt, Pits, Pittes, and Pyttes are being researched as a one-name study, which is a study of all occurrences of a surname. You can learn more about this important research and the associated family trees by contacting the one-name study. The one-name study may hold information to assist you with your family history research.
The Y DNA test tells you about your direct male line, which would be your father, his father, and back in time. You must be a male to take this test, and you should have one of the surnames shown. If you believe there is a male Pitts or variant surname in your direct male line, although you have a different surname, you are also welcome to participate. If you are female, you can find a direct line (Pitts) male in your family tree to participate and represent your tree or take the Family Finder test yourself.
We encourage males who order a Y DNA test to at least order the 37 marker test. The 67 marker or the 111 marker tests are the best. If you order fewer markers, either 12 or 25, you can upgrade later, though this costs a little more and the 12 marker test isn't enough to establish a relationship.
Both males and females can learn about both their male and female lines. This is best done with the Family Finder test. This is an autosomal test involving 22 chromosomes and the X chromosome and will provide matches back to 5th cousins. Family Finder Information
Both males and females can learn about their direct female line, which would be their mother, their mother's mother, and back in time. Both men and women inherit mtDNA, although only women pass it on. You would order a mtDNA test. We encourage people to do the the mtFullSequence test because it is the only test that produces certain matches. However, the test will likely still give you hundreds of matches and most will be thousands of years in the past. Be sure that you need this test before ordering it. For most people the Family Finder test is a much better choice as it always gives you results no further back than about 5th cousin and is less expensive.
None of these test results contain personal information and you will match or be a close match to those to whom you are related. This is an opportunity to learn more about your origins and ancestry.
Order your test kit TODAY or visit the Helpful Links shown on the left side of this page for more information.
Click here to order a Pitts DNA test
Click here to transfer a "ancestry dna" or "23 and me dna" test to FTDNA Then log in your FTDNA personal page and join the Pitts DNA Project
For more information contact:
Nancy McClellan at: nanmc@bellsouth.net
David Pitts at: paw281@sbcglobal.net
John Pitts at: johnholwaypitts@gmail.com
Susan Squires at: susaninbutano@gmail.com
This page was last updated on January 10, 2024
Webmaster David Pitts at: paw281@sbcglobal.net
