Finger DNA Results

Name Ancestor H
a
p
l
o		 D
Y
S
3
9
3		 D
Y
S
3
9
0		 D
Y
S
1
9
D
Y
S
3
9
1		 D
Y
S
3
8
5
a		 D
Y
S
3
8
5
b		 D
Y
S
4
2
6		 D
Y
S
3
8
8		 D
Y
S
4
3
9		 D
Y
S
3
8
9
i		 D
Y
S
3
9
2		 D
Y
S
3
8
9
i
i		 D
Y
S
4
5
8		 D
Y
S
4
5
9
a		 D
Y
S
4
5
9
b		 D
Y
S
4
5
5		 D
Y
S
4
5
4		 D
Y
S
4
4
7		 D
Y
S
4
3
7		 D
Y
S
4
4
8		 D
Y
S
4
4
9		 D
Y
S
4
6
4
a		 D
Y
S
4
6
4
b		 D
Y
S
4
6
4
c		 D
Y
S
4
6
4
d		 D
Y
S
4
6
0		 G
A
T
A
H
4		 Y
C
A
I
I
a		 Y
C
A
I
I
b		 D
Y
S
4
5
6		 D
Y
S
4
4
2		 D
Y
S
4
3
8		 D
Y
S
4
4
4		 D
Y
S
4
4
6		 D
Y
S
4
6
1		 D
Y
S
4
6
2		 G
A
T
A
A
1
0		 D
Y
S
6
3
5		 G
A
A
T
1
B
0
7		 D
Y
S
4
4
1		 D
Y
S
4
4
5		 D
Y
S
4
5
2		 D
Y
S
4
6
3
Fred Samuel b.1568 R1b 12 24 14 11 11 15 12 12 12 13 13 29 16  9 10 11 11 25 15 19 31 13 15 17 17 11 22 19 23 16 17 12 12 13 12 12 13 23 10 14 13 30 24
Tom Samuel b.1568 R1b 12 24 14 11 11 15 12 12 12 13 13 29 16  9 10 11 11 25 15 19 31 13 15 17 17 11 22 19 24 16 17 12 12 13 13 12 13 23 10 14 13 30 24
Dwight Johannes b.1700 I1a 13 22 14 10 14 16 11 14 12 12 11 29 15  8  9  8 11 22 16 20 28 12 14 14 15 10 21 19 21 14 17 10 14 13 12 12 15 22 11 17 11 31 21
Kenneth Johannes b.1700 I1a 13 22 14 10 14 16 11 14 12 12 11 29 15 8 9 8 11 22 16 20 28 12 14 14 15
John Peter b.1724 R1b1b2 13 23 14 12 11 12 12 12 11 13 11 28
H. Linn Peter b.1724 R1b1b2 13 23 14 12 11 13 12 12 11 13 11 28

As the chart above shows, 6 members of the Finger family have been tested so far. Two of them, Fred and Tom are known descendants of Samuel Finger born c.1568 in Germany. These two persons are 10th cousins once removed, yet their DNA test results are only 2 markers different out of 43 (read more about Samuel Finger's DNA).

However, Dwight, the webmaster of this Finger Family website and Kenneth Finger, both descendants of Johannes Finger, born c.1700, show no relation to Samuel's descendants. Now that 2 descendants of Johannes have been tested and the results are in agreement, we have a high degree of certainty that they are correct.

H. Linn Finger's results reveal that no close relationship between the "Southern" family line and the others appears. John Finger, another descendant of Peter Finger, was tested and confirms the results for that line.

"Peter Finger is more closely related to Samuel Finger than he is to Johannes Vinger, but probably not within the last 750 - 1000 years (the time of surname adoption in western Europe). There is a genetic difference of 9 between Peter and Samuel over just 12 markers. That's a lot of difference, more than can be accumulated in the last thousand years. So, the short answer is that Peter Finger is a third distinct line of Fingers, albeit a somewhat closer very distant cousin to Samuel than Johannes." — John Vanko, DNA project administrator

Haplogroup I1a: The group displays a very clear frequency gradient, with a peak of approximately 35 percent among the populations of southern Norway, southwestern Sweden especially on the island of Gotland, and Denmark, and rapidly decreasing frequencies toward the edges of the historically Germanic sphere of influence. - Wikipedia

Haplogroup R1b: In human genetics, Haplogroup R1b is the most frequent Y-chromosome haplogroup in Western Europe. Its frequency is highest in Western Europe, especially in Atlantic Europe (and due to European emigration, in North America, South America, and Australia). In southern England, the frequency of R1b is about 70%, and in parts of north and western England, Spain, Portugal, France, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the frequency of R1b is greater than 90%. - Wikipedia

Haplogroup R1b1b2 Most of the present-day European males with the M343 marker also have the P25 and M269 markers. These markers define the R1b1b2 subclade. In earlier literature the M269 marker, rather than M343, was used to define the R1b haplogroup. Then From 2003 to 2005 what is now R1b1b2 was designated R1b3. From 2005 to 2008 it was R1b1c. R1b1b2 frequency reaches 10% in Algerian Arabs. R1b1b2-M269 has been found at a frequency of 15.2% in a sample of 33 individuals from northern Iran, and 6.0% in a sample of 117 people from southern Iran. - Wikipedia

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