Staats Genealogy and Family History

Here are the current Y-DNA testing results:The above table may also be viewed as an image. So far his project has been broken down into 2 groups based on the immigrant ancestor of each:

1. The first group consists of only 1 member and has Abraham Staats (the Dutchman of Albany) as the most distant ancestor. The haplogroup for this group is R1b1b2.
2. The second group consists of 4 members and has Jan Pieterszen Van Husum as the most distant ancestor. The haplogroup for this group is I1.

It appears that Jan Pieterszen Van Husum (Van Huysen) and Abraham Staats of Albany are not related! See the results. Terminology:

• Haplogroup: Gives insight into deep ancestral origins on the order of thousands of years.