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Putman Family DNA Test Results  

            I have been working on my ancestry for a number of years.   The story goes that my family was Scottish and, or, Dutch.  The 1870 and 1880 Michigan Census returns says that my great grandfather William C. Putman was born in New York and his parents were born in New Jersey.  

            I have found that in many cases people believe they belong to a certain family line, but the truth can only be found in having a DNA test done.  From my observation of a number of DNA websites, it appears that many families "adopted" children that used their name as much as 10% of the results if you go over 300 years or more.  So, it is a great idea to have your DNA tested.  I recently had my DNA tested, and found that I am I1a. 

              William C. Putman's father was John Putman who was born in New Jersey about 1790.

            I have an early "Putman cousin" from California whose is working on the history of his family.  He, also, recently had his DNA tested, which returned an R1b result!  Right now, a member of the Dutch-American Putman family of the New York branch wil lbe getting his yDNA tested so we may be able to determine the Dutch yDNA line.

            According to my friend who also comes from New Jersey, he descends from John Putman and Jane Stoll of New Jersey and  Schuyler County, New York.  John was born about 1776.  This family has always reported that it was Dutch and from Holland.  The people of Europe today are about 75% either R1b, R1a, or I1a while the earliest inhabitants were probably nearly 100% from these three groups.  

            The R1b line tends to be Scottish or English while I1a is of Dutch and German origins.  My DNA is associated with the early Netherlands, Northwest Germany, and Denmark.   This I1a group is called the Viking Group and has three major subgroups the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Ultra Norse.  My DNA type is Anglo-Saxon, and I am two markers off from being an AS-10 person.  It appears that I indeed am AS-10 with two mutations..

            The ancient origin of this I1a group seems to have been in the Western Balkans, and descends from one person who lived there before the last glacial maximum.   The R1b group during this period took refuge in Spain or Iberian while R1a took refuge along the Northern Black Sea.

            Please see  http://www.dnaheritage.com/masterclass2.asp for more information. 

            The I group is associated with the Gravettian stone culture.

            I looked at the people who were AS-10 or off by two markers in either direction and the compared my yDNA to others that were off by four markers.   The results that I found that were interesting is that Purington families of England and the Baughman family of Germany are close matches to both the AS-10 and myself.  I find it interesting that their names are similar to Portman and hence Pootman.  Also, my apparent branch of the Putman family once lived, it seems, near Portland, Pennsylvania, next to the Colver family.  The Calvert family yDNA is very similar to mine. 

 
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  Putnam New Jersey, USA  13 22 14 10 13 15 11 14 12 13 11 29 14 8 9 8 11 23 16 20 28 12 14 15 16 10 10 19 21 14 14 16 20 35 36 12 10
  Purington England  13 22 14 10 13 15 11 14 11 13 11 29 16 8 9 8 11 21 16 20 29 12 14 15 15                        
  Baughman Germany  13 22 14 10 13 15 11 14 12 13 11 29 16 8 9 8 11 23 16 20 30 12 14 15 17 10 10 19 21 14 14 17 19 36 37 12 10
  Calvert Chester Co, PA USA, USA  13 22 15 10 13 15 11 14 11 13 11 29 16 8 9 8 11 23 16 20 28 12 14 16 16                        
 

            In the above chart, Purington has a nearly perfect AS-10 in the first 12 Markers with 385a being 15 while AS-10 is 14.  I mutate at Markers 439 and 458 as well as 385b [light blue] from the AS-10 model [see below].  Yellow shows the deviations from my yDNA.  One will see that 385b seems to be an older mutation then is 439 and 458 from the chart below.

            The Purington family was also known as the Puddington and Puttington and came to America from Tiverton, Devon, England.  The town name Tiverton means "Two Fords Town", which is similar to the meaning of Voerde, Germany, the home of many Pootman's.  Voerde means "Ford", and put very simply "port" comes from the word ford.

             One might even speculate that the meaning of the family name Calvert is related to the word ford although the reported meaning is calve herder.  It may be that the Calvert family was from Skelton, Cleve[land], Yorkshire, England.  The place name Cleve may mean "cliff" that the people were from Cleves, Germany.  The later place name also means cliff.

            The normal AS-10 Marker 19 is 14, and the normal Marker 439 is 11.  

            To view results from the Putnam DNA Project click that home page's Results for the current yDNA markers in the Putnam yDNA Project.  

            I would encourage anyone who is a Dutch-American Putman or any other Putnam/Putman that is a male [with the surname Putnam/Putman] to have their Y-DNA tested to expand the database.

            You get the best rates as a member of the Putnam DNA Project Group:  Recruitment.

            I've notice also that after looking at the Serenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation database and the Y-Search database that my Putman Y-DNA is a close match with the DNA of the Baughman family of Pennsylvania.  I am also close to the Boone family.  If I use the paradigm that I am AS-10, the data becomes much clearer.

            Another group that is close to the my Putnam markers is the following:

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  Putnam New Jersey, USA  13 22 14 10 13 15 11 14 12 13 11 29 14 8 9 8 11 23 16 20 28 12 14 15 16 10 10 19 21 14 14 16 20 35 36 12 10      
  Moore Tennessee, USA  13 22 14 10 13 15 11 14 11 13 11 29 15 8 9 8 11 23 16 20 29 12 14 15 16                              
  Leathers Unknown  13 22 14 10 13 14 11 14 11 13 11 29 15 8 9 8 11 23 16 20 28 12 14 15 16                              
  AS-10 Unknown  13 22 14 10 13 14 11 14 11 13 11 29 15 8 9 8 11 23 16 20 28 12 14 15 16 10 10 19 21 14 14         12 10      
  Carter Dillon, USA  13 22 15 10 13 15 11 14 11 13 11 29 15 8 9 8 11 23 16 20 28 12 14 15 16                              
  Rodriguez Adjuntas, Puerto Rico  13 22 14 10 13 15 11 14 11 13 11 29 15     8 11 23   20 29 12 14 15 16 10   19 21               10 12 18 21
 

                AS-10 is listed.  Interestingly, the above Rodrigues is the closest to me, and the Rodrigues ancestor is Victor from Spain.  Yellow above in the last chart shows the deviations from AS-10.  You can see that, it appears, Markers 439 and 458 for me are recent mutations from AS-10.  I am closer to Victor Rodrigues, it seems, then I am to any other person so far registered.  One should probably look at AS-10 as the oldest of the group with 385b being the oldest mutation and with my 439 and 458 being newer mutations.  

                One would say my 439=12 and 458=14 is a distinct late Putman mutation at least from the standard AS-10 pedigree.  Marker 385b=15 seems to be an intermediate mutation between the Putman and AS-10 pedigrees.

 

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Last modified: June 25, 2008