Descendants of Jacob Carpenter-264864 are fairly well documented to the present day. However, his ancestry is of some conjercture. For over 50 years was confused with with another Jacob Carpenter born in 1796 in Jamacia, New York whose ancestry was part of the Rehoboth, MA Carpenter branch referenced as Group 3. The Y-DNA is very different from Group 43.
Group 43 had two male Carpenter descendants of Jacob Carpenter-264864 who Y-DNA tested and matched each other genetically and genealogically. Each of the Y-DNA testers, who are 4th Cousins, on this Carpenter line came from different mothers who both married the said Jacob.
There are about 1,440 descendants listed in this report. Please see the Table of Contents below.
The number after the surname is a record information number (RIN) from the Carpenter Cousins Project master genealogical database. See: The Carpenter Cousins Project
These Carpenter lineages include those male descendants who have been Y-DNA tested and are part of Group 43 of the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project.
Group 43 is genetically distinct from other Carpenter/Zimmerman groups within the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project.
It has not yet been determined if there have been some formal and informal adoptions in this descendant line. Sometimes a young widow with a son would remarry and the young lad would bond with his step-father then assume his surname. Before bigger and more formalized governments, this was not uncommon. On occasion some children were given up for adoption or farmed out to relatives..
We call these type of events Non-Paternity Events or NPEs. This means that sometimes a Carpenter descendant may occasionally have a different genetic profile from what is expected. Or conversely, a Carpenter descendant who was adopted has a different surname, but the genetic profile of this Carpenter line.
See much more at the Carpenter Cousins web page at: https://carpentercousins.com aka The Carpenter Cousins Project. The Carpenter Cousins Project is part of the Guild of One Name Studies
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