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Our project is open to any male of the surname Burnett, Burnete or Burnette or female or male who believes that they descend from a Burnett or a variant surname. Participants are sought from all parts of the USA, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Oceania and anywhere else the Surname may be found.

Project Discussion: The DNA information is to be used in conjunction with historical and traditional research. Y-DNA (male line) results do prove that a relationship exists or does not exist. However, traditional paper trail research is necessary to establish how you are related. If the Y-DNA matches do not agree with the traditional genealogy, then the paper trail relationship is incorrect. At other times Y-DNA results may point to an unknown adoption in the family, or some other so-called surname discontinuity event (change in surname).

The Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname. Females don't carry their father's Y-DNA and they acquire a new surname by the way of marriage so the tested individual for the y chromosome test must be a male that wants to check his paternal line (father's father's father's...). The test to be ordered is either the Y-DNA111, Y-DNA67, or Y-DNA37, and females may want to look for a brother or male cousin with that surname to be tested.

Females with Burnett ancestry can also participate in the project by ordering the Family Finder test for themselves. In fact males can also take this autosomal test involving 22 of the chromosomes in order to investigate both their male and female lines. This autosomal DNA test only proves a relationship exists when there is a match. With this test, failure to match does not eliminate the possibility of a relationship. Family Finder Test Information

The Descendants of John and Lucretia Burnett DNA Project welcomes all participants. We encourage you to join today! Order a dna kit

Then log in your FTDNA personal page and join the Descendants of John and Lucretia Burnett DNA Project. Look under surname projects that start with "D".

  • The test will be conducted by Family Tree DNA of Houston TX, the World's leading testing company for Surname DNA Projects. The cost per participant is dependent on the number of markers tested, but all tests include an estimate of the Haplogroup (an indication of deep ancestry). We personally recommend the largest number of markers that you can afford. We expect that most serious researchers will eventually upgrade to 111 markers - if they don't start there. We recommend 37 marker test as the cheapest test that can be useful in identifying other families that share a common ancestor.

    • The test is a simple cheek swab. The kit will arrive and leave your house by mail. You simply rub the inside of your cheek a number of times with a special scraper (it doesn't hurt), put the kit back into the envelope, and put it in the mail.

    • If you are interested in participating, please contact one of the Project Administrators listed below and submit your pedigree (list of ancestors). Example Pedigrees are shown on the Lineages page.



    If you want to understand more about the science of DNA (Genes, Chromosomes and DNA)     Please read "Everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask" If you still have questions, contact one of the Project Administrators listed below.




    For more information contact:

    Susan Kromer Hunt at: susankromerhunt@outlook.com

    Mary Nell Burnett at: mnburnett@sbcglobal.net

    David Pitts at: paw281@sbcglobal.net




    This page was last updated on Oct. 26, 2020

    Webmaster David Pitts