Now that we have more than thirty male Crumps participating in the Crump DNA Project, we are beginning so see some important and interesting results. If you are male Crump, or have a male Crump in your family, this project may be something that you want to consider, particularly if you don't know your Crump family line back before 1850, or so.

It's an easy cheek swab test, and costs about $100 to find out if you or your relative belongs to any of the six or seven Crump lines that we have now definitely established. If your relative is not interested, you can sponsor him if he agrees to participate in the test. About a fourth of our participants are sponsored by other family members.

Research is progressing almost as fast as in the medical industry, so be a part of it! We have lots of data, and if you can get us back to the late 1800's, we may be able to help.

If we can get fifteen or twenty more male Crumps involved, we will be one of the top families of the Family Tree DNA family project groups. This could be significant to us since our surname is down around 1,500th in "commonality" of all surnames in the United States.

One group that has not been seen yet are the African-American Crumps involved in the project. Like the Thomas Jefferson case, there is a high probability that some of you AA Crumps descend from these early white Crump families of Virginia and North Carolina in particular. A part of the test will indicate ethnic origins. I know that by 1900 or so, there were almost as many AA Crumps in Lousiana as whites, so this is something to think about. That may be the case in other southern states like Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and probably others.

If you know of anyone who may qualify by being a male Crump in this Y-Chromosome only test, please let me know and I will invite them to join personally.

Thank you, Ed Crump, Jr. in Louisiana