Hollingsworth Family DNA Project

Objective

Our objective is identification of all of the Hollingsworth/Hollingworth/Hollandsworth families worldwide.

First, we are concentrating on identifying Hollingsworth families who have been in the US since 1800.

We believe that there are 6 such families descending from: Richard of MA (which has probably died out in male lines), John of Surry County, VA, John of Kent County, MD, Charles of Queen Anne's County, MD (and probably earlier of Northampton County, VA), George of Baltimore County, MD, and Valentine of New Castle County, DE.

We encourage descendants of unidentified Hollingsworth lines that settled in the US before 1800 to submit dna samples for comparisons.

Second, before 1650 Hollingsworths/Hollingworths were found in many parts of England and Ireland. Apparently, all of these Hollingsworths/Hollingworths do not have a common ancestor. We intend to utilize dna testing to determine the relationships among the sundry Hollingsworth/Hollingworth/Hollandsworth families of the United Kingdom/Ireland/the United States/Canada/Australia.

We also encourage descendants of the various European Holling(s)worth lines to join us.

How to Join

Contact Doug Hollingsworth (mousytongue@msn.com) or John Hollingsworth (bjh8118@charter.net), Project Administrators for the Hollingsworth Group DNA Project. They will be happy to answer any questions and to send you a "join authorization" to enable you to join the Hollingsworth Group DNA Project and to order your dna test kit at a reduced group price.

Family Tree DNA

The Hollingsworth Group DNA Project is on-line at the FamilytreeDNA website (http://www.familytreedna.com). FamilyTreeDNA is providing the DNA research service and the analysis is being conducted at the University of Arizona. Please visit the above website for additional information.

Hollingsworth Family Project Update (2/19/12)

All lineages noted in this update are those submitted by the participants and are stated by them to be correct (or probable in some cases). I do not verify or certify the accuracy of these lineages. It is my policy (not the policy of the Hollingsworth Surname DNA Project) to list the earliest ancestor as it is submitted by the participant unless it can be verified to be incorrect or not proven. For future genealogy research, all lineages (including dates and locations) listed in this update should be considered no more than "probable" until actually proven by the future researcher.

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Group Members and Friends,

We have two hundred-ten (210) group members and two hundred-nine (209) kits have been received by FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA). One new member, no new member test results and no new test upgrade results were received since our project update of 2/12/2012.

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New Member:

Susan Pemberton Webber (maternal Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. lineage) descendant of Ruth Hollingsworth (m. John Pearson) of "Big" Isaac Hollingsworth of George of Abraham of Thomas of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. (b. 1632 Ireland). (Family Finder Test).

Thanks Susan ... for joining our project!

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The following is updated information regarding new members, test results, test upgrades results, etc.:
(Red text indicates new or revised information from last project update)

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(0) EXPECTED NEW MEMBER TEST RESULTS (not POSTED as of 2/19/2012):
(1) TEST RESULTS NOT SCHEDULED (new member - DNA SAMPLE NOT RECEIVED/SCHEDULED by FTDNA):

Blenard Miller descendant of (Later) .... mtDNA test.

(7) NEW UPGRADES/TESTS REQUESTED (TOTAL):

Y-DNA67 to 111:

John Hollingsworth descendant of Wesley Hollingsworth of Vermillion Co., IN ......of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. (b. 1632 Ireland).

Thomas G. Hollingsworth descendant of George R. of Randolph of George H. of George Washington Hollingsworth (b.1795 VA d. 1874 TN) of William Hollingsworth (b. c1750-1765 Amherst County, VA) .....of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. (b. 1632 Ireland).

John C. Hollingsworth descendant of Samuel Howard of Nathaniel T. of Eli of Nathaniel of Thomas of Thomas of Thomas (b. 1661 Ireland) of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. (b. 1632 Ireland).

Family Finder Test:

Nathan Elwin Jones (maternal Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. lineage) of Dr. Joseph Hollingsworth (b. 1820 Surry Co., NC and Slave Malinda Hoosier) of James M. (b. 1797 Stokes Co., NC m. 1819 Elizabeth Golding) of Joseph (b. 1765 m. 1789 Mary Mathews) of Amherst Co., Va. ... of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. (b. 1632 Ireland)

Nicholson Hollingworth descendant of Thomas Nicholson Hollingworth (b. 1816 Norton by Malton, Yorkshire, England)

Advanced Markers:

Jeffery Hollingsworth descendant of Aaron Gordon Hollingsworth (b. c1827 SC m. Mary "Polly" Bullock Hollingsworth b. c1836 AL) of Mississippi of William Hollingsworth (b. c1780 SC m. c1817 Elizabeth Davis, 2nd wife b. c1790 SC d. after 1860 MS).....of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. (b. 1632 Ireland).

Jack Hollingsworth descendant of Jeptha of Jacob (b. 1704) of Thomas (b. 1661 Ireland) of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. (b. 1632 Ireland).

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This week FTDNA posted the scheduled test results for the following participants:

LAB RESULTS NOT RECEIVED (as of 2/19/2012):

8168 Y-DNA67 to 111 ...........John Hollingsworth ....................... 2/22/2012
56481 Y-DNA67 to 111 ...........Thomas G. Hollingsworth .............. 2/29/2012
44959 DYS549 & 556 ............ Jeffrey Hollingsworth ..................... 3/7/2012
28989 DYS549 ...................... Jack Hollingsworth ....................... 3/21/2012
75096 Y-DNA67 to 111 .......... John C. Hollingsworth ................... 3/28/2012
N58898 Family Finder .............. Nathan Elwin Jones ..................... 3/28/2012
10566 Family Finder .............. Nicholson Hollingworth ................. 4/4/2012

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If you would like to help recruit selected Holling(s)worth group participants (that would otherwise not be available to join our project) to assist us in learning more about our Holling(s)worth ancestors, please contact Doug, me or the FamilytreeDNA General Fund for the Hollingsworth Surname Project at the following link: http://www.familytreedna.com/contribution.html.

Thank you for making this project possible!

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Very Best Regards,

John of Giles ......of Valentine