A member of the CARRICO Y-DNA Surname Project
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/DNA/Carrico/CarricoDNA.shtml
has made a very generous offer to fully fund 67-marker tests for two key CARRICO lineages:

Peter CARRICO III (1722- ), son of Peter CARRICO II:
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/Car/CarricoPeterIII-_.shtml

and his brother, Thomas Ignatius CARRICO (c1741-c1813):
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/Car/CarricoThomasIgnatius-El...

These conditions apply: 1) that you are a male surnamed CARRICO or CARICO with a patrilineal (direct male line) descent from one of the above [no females can break the chain of descent]; 2) that you provide your paper genealogy in sufficient detail that the donor and the project admin are satisfied your connection is genuine; and 3) that you sign the Release allowing your results to be publicly shared. (Note that publicly sharing your results does not mean publicly sharing your identity.)

You have the option of two levels of privacy. You can be tested as an "Anonymous CARRICO" with the project admin serving as the contact person for your account. In this case, only the project admin and the donor necessarily need know who you are, but I strongly discourage this level of secrecy. Rather, I would suggest the standard level of privacy, in which your name and email address are shared, but only privately and only with those for whom you are a DNA match (i.e., other CARRICOs who have also been tested). Either option provides you with public anonymity.

Personally, I do not see the need for any level of privacy, and I show my complete DNA test results, including my mtDNA FGS (full genetic sequence) online:
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/DNA/mtDNA-T-haplotree-DGM.shtml

But I do and will respect the wishes of anyone preferring to maintain their privacy.

Each of these subsidies is a testing value worth hundreds of dollars. Only one test per descendant is being offered, so in each case, the first person to contact me who fulfills the conditions gets the test.

Diana Gale Matthiesen
CARRICO Y-DNA Surname Project Group Administrator

I live with four male Caricos(my husband and our three sons, in fact I have never met a female Carrico, this line has been all males for several generations) that are supposed to be descendants of Thomas Ignatius. I am still working on the hard evidence to prove the lineage beyond the notes that were passed to me. You will find our family tree on ancestry, its called Carico-Wisthoff.
What my father-in-law gave me was not correct(genealogy done by Maud Carrico Russell) and so I have not included the later generations until I have solid proof, maybe that is something that someone can help me with.
At this point I have records for:
Thomas Ignatius 1820-?
John Carico 1857-?
Ernest Carico 1884-1951
Arthur Burdett Carico 1906-1964

Previous to Thomas my records are not complete, but I have figured his father as:
Vincent Carico ?-1842 son of Thomas Ignatius 1740-1812

I am not sure to what detail evidence is needed or if anyone out there has some of the missing pieces. I just started researching in Indiana records online (and I haven't really delved into Kentucky yet) when my father-in-law made a recent trip back to visit family. I am not sure if the line can be proven, but I hope so.

We are definately interested in the dna study and sharing information is not a problem. Please let me know if this is the right lineage and if so what is needed.

thanks,
katie carico

I will be more than happy to work with you, Katie, and see if we can't solidify your line. Give me a few hours to pull together what I have and get back to you. Maybe a few others can chime in in the meantime.

I found your Carico-Wisthoff "Public Member Tree" at Ancestry.com, so I have that to work from. And checking my web site, I see I have Thomas in the 1870 and 1880 censuses of Clay Co., IN, but have not yet made a family group sheet for him:
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/Census/Carrico/IN/CarricoCenTime...

I'll go ahead and start one...

Donnie R Carrico is a Peter Carrico descendant & willing to do this DNA testing. Please notify if doing so is available.
Donniec@cvctx.com

We have someone who beat you to it, but there's some question as to how solid his paper connection to Peter is. If you have the better connection, you may get the test, instead.

I will contact you privately to discuss this further.

I will try to fill in some of the blanks on my ancestry tree, I already added some census records for Thomas Ignatuis. I have not delved into this too deeply yet, I had been working more on some of the females lines in Indiana and had put off work on the Carricos.
Also, not sure if this helps, but I live in Maryland, 15 minutes gets me to the state archives and I can also visit the local genealogical library where they have tons of local books. I can't guarrantee how much time I have, but if I have a specific search it might make a trip worthwhile.
katie

It's looking good. I think your suspicion that your Thomas Ignatius CARRICO connects to Thomas Ignatius CARRICO I through his son, Vincent CARRICO, is correct. This is what I've put together, so far:

http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/Car/CarricoThomasIgnatius-Ra...

I envy you being so close the the Maryland state archives! It's very kind of you to make an offer to do a search. If I find I have a specific reference to something known to be there, I may take you up on it.

Wow, looks good, you have been busy. I have to say I hate the idea of John having different mother, only cause that makes more work for me, I love knowing the female lines and hate dead ends.
You may be aware of this but there is an obit for Thomas posted here: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~boorom/carric...

I am a little slow here this morning, but after rereading the obit it says he survived his two wives, so that would eliminate the third.

I guess i really need to dig deeper for the 1860 census, it would really nice to have.

That obit is a jewel. As for the 1860 census, good luck. I searched and searched using ever term I could think of, without success. The only thing I didn't do was a page-by-page search, but I'm not certain enough where he was to do it. Definitely, good luck!