Raleigh Research
Research and other North Carolina genealogical resources

About Raleigh Research DNA Projects

Welcome to the home of  Raleigh Research's DNA projects! DNA research offers exciting possibilities for genealogy studies. There are two main types of DNA test and they reveal different information on ones ancestors. "Y" chromosome research generaly fits with the traditional surname based genealogical research. Mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) research is an exciting way of understanding ones matrilinear line.

For more information on DNA research go here.

"Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors
 by the records of history"
-Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

"Those who not look upon themselves as a link connecting the past with
 the future do not perform their duty to the world"
 -Daniel Webster, creator of Webster's Dictionary