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Walter Gach Family

Posted: 8 Apr 2007 1:09PM GMT
Classification: Query
Mrs. Mitchell:


I tried e-mailing you directly about your post, but it came back as undeliverable. I hope that you or a member of your family will see my reply here. I have the Gach family which you mentioned in my files, please see below.

Last year I announced on this Gach board that I hoped that other male Gachs would join me in a study of Y-chromosome DNA, which as you may know only males carry, but my message did not draw any participants.

Y-DNA allows us to bridge the gaps between the various Gach families which were spread out across Central Europe and for whom we have no documents. In January 2007 I started the Gach yDNA Surname Project myself at www.worldfamilies.net. You can see it by following this link: www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/g/gach/ .

I have posted my yDNA test results on the "Results" page and what little I know of my Gach line on the "Patriarchs" page. My documented line starts with my great-grandfather Antoni Gach who was born before 1862 at Korchow in what is now southeast Poland. I believe that his father's name was Jan Gach but the parish records are not available for the years before 1862.

Above my line on that page you will see a Gach family from Pisek in old Bohemia (one of whose members has submitted a sample) and above that you will see the line of the Gach family from Neumarkt (now Nowy Targ) which is the line you mentioned (two of whose members have also submitted a sample). I have made a tree of the latter family in which you appear that I would be glad to share with you.

As only males carry the Y-chromosome it makes a great way to trace the degree of relationship between families who bear the same surname but have no documented proof that they are indeed related. Given that only males carry yDNA only males can be tested for it, I hope that of every Gach family with whom I am in contact will have at least one representative in this study.

Please take a look at the "Patriarchs" page (which shows no living Gachs) and tell me if I have missed anyone or have made any other errors. And please have any male Gachs whom you may know contact me about this subject.


Thank you,

Terrance



Re: Walter Gach's first family

Posted: 8 Apr 2007 1:13PM GMT
Classification: Query
Rose:


I tried e-mailing you directly about your post, but it came back as undeliverable. I hope that you or a member of your family will see my reply here. I have the Gach family which you mentioned in my files, please see below.

Last year I announced on this Gach board that I hoped that other male Gachs would join me in a study of Y-chromosome DNA, which as you may know only males carry, but my message did not draw any participants. Y-DNA allows us to bridge the gaps between the various Gach families which were spread out across Central Europe and for whom we have no documents. In January 2007 I started the Gach yDNA Surname Project myself at www.worldfamilies.net. You can see it by following this link: www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/g/gach/ .

I have posted my yDNA test results on the "Results" page and what little I know of my Gach line on the "Patriarchs" page. My documented line starts with my great-grandfather Antoni Gach who was born before 1862 at Korchow in what is now southeast Poland. I believe that his father's name was Jan Gach but the parish records are not available for the years before 1862. Above my line on that page you will see a Gach family from Pisek in old Bohemia (one of whose members has submitted a sample) and above that you will see the line of the Gach family from Neumarkt (now Nowy Targ) which is the line you mentioned (two of whose members have also submitted a sample). I have made a tree of the latter family in which you appear that I would be glad to share with you.

As only males carry the Y-chromosome it makes a great way to trace the degree of relationship between families who bear the same surname but have no documented proof that they are indeed related. Given that only males carry yDNA only males can be tested for it, I hope that of every Gach family with whom I am in contact will have at least one representative in this study. Please take a look at the "Patriarchs" page (which shows no living Gachs) and tell me if I have missed anyone or have made any other errors. And please have any male Gachs whom you may know contact me about this subject.

Thank you,

Terrance
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