Tracing Guitar Ancestors with Y-DNA Testing

guittardjohn — 2009-10-16 01:36:46Z

The Guittard Family History Y-DNA Study welcomes Guittards, Guitards, Guitars, etc., of all spelling variations. This international volunteer Guittard family history investigation is designed to trace Y-DNA profiles of different Guittard family direct paternal lines in France, America, Spain, Andorra, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, the British Isles, Belgium, and everywhere else back to their earliest detectable origins, and to find and either prove or disprove relationships between and within these family lines.

If you or your Guitar-surname male relative decides to test, you can FIND OUT AS SOON AS YOUR TEST IS PROCESSED whether you are related to --
FRANCOIS GUITARD, the young dragoon who escorted Robespierre to the guillotine during the French Revolution, and his enormous family of descendants in New Brunswick, or
their ancestor Guittards from Alsace in northeastern France, or
the Larodde Guittards of Puy de Dome, or
the Ponteix Guittards of Puy de Dome, or
the Toulouse Guittards in southern France, or
the Ruffec-source Guitards on the west central coast of France, or
the Guitarts of Spanish Catalonia, or
the Alsatian Guittards' Bronze Age cousins whose skeletons from 3,000 years ago were found in the Lichtenstein Cave family burial chamber in north central Germany.

If we can obtain the tests we want in France, Spain, Scotland, and Ireland, you might find out whether you could be related to the knife-maker craftsmen Guittards of the famous 12TH-CENTURY GUITTARD FAMILY COMMUNE at Thiers in Puy de Dome.

Or to VISCOUNT GUITARD OF BARCELONA in 966 AD.

Or to PIRATE CAPTAIN LEWIS GUITTAR, who shot it out with the British Navy in 1700.

Or to the PICT KING GARNOT III (GUITARD), who ruled 523-530 AD in Scotland. (Amusing footnote: Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fanciful HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN wrote that COMMANDER GUITARD OF THE PICTAVIANS in Gaul fought alongside the legendary KING ARTHUR at the Battle of Suesia.)

We now have Guittard/Guitard/Guittar/Guitart testers living in five different countries, including France, Canada, Spain, Venezuela, and the United States. The umbrella surname Guittard is used on this website to include all similar and related spellings, such as GUITARD, Guitar, GUITTAR, Guitart, and so on. Actually GUITARD, Guitar and GUITTAR are all phonetically equivalent to Guittard since the "d" in Guittard is typically silent in French. Some Guittard researchers find their own family name spelled three or more different ways in the old records.

Y-DNA testing measures specific characteristcs on the male tester's Y-chromosome -- markers passed down on the direct paternal line from a father to his son, to his son, to his son, etc., with relatively few changes or mutations over the centuries. These genealogical markers usually (but not always) follow the surname back through the generations many hundreds of years ago to the time in history when surnames were first generally adopted, and then continue to follow the genetic profile back through the Middle Ages and beyond. A second test is recommended to confirm and verify each line back to the Most Recent Common Ancestor and to preclude a possible DNA sidetrack from the expected paternal line due to an unrecorded adoption, name change, friendly neighbor, or research mistake.

The Y-DNA test for Guitar-surname males, swabbing the inside of the cheek, is EASY and QUICK -- three swabs at 60 seconds each. No blood is involved, and no medical or other information is recorded or obtained. The testkit comes in the mail to the tester's home. Female GUITAR descendants and male GUITAR descendants not having the GUITAR surname can readily participate and advance the study by encouraging their Guittard-surname brothers, cousins or other relatives to submit a test representing their common GUITAR line. We use the leading testing company with the largest databank. No one with our Guittard study has any interest in the testing company or any related entity, or receives any type of compensation in connection with the testing program.

Privacy of test results and samples is protected by the strict protocols and guidelines followed by the testing company, as required by federal and state law. Each tester has his own password-protected testkit page where he can see his own results and any matches with other testers. On this Guittard group website's Y-DNA Results page, each tester can choose to identify his test results by his earliest known ancestor's name, or by surname and place of origin, or by surname only, etc. Moreover, Y-DNA marker results contain only lineage information (markers showing how closely the tester could be related to another tester with similar markers), and not medical information.

Our Guittard group has no funds except its own limited member contributions, but may be able to share part of the testing cost for a Guittard line not previously tested. PLEASE INQUIRE IF THE COST-SHARING CONTRIBUTION IS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR LINE. Anyone who wishes to help advance our investigation in Puy de Dome, BARCELONA, Burgundy, Germany, Scotland, and so on, may do so by contributing to future key tests through the Guittard group General Fund.

Please see our Guittard Y-DNA study website at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Guittard Family History Y-DNA Study/
and email guittX ard-dn a@s wbell.net [without the X's or spaces] if you would like further information.

Y-DNA testing is fascinating and a barrel of fun. Y-DNA testing has the potential to leap over brick walls in traditional research and to produce solid information of unique value on your Guittar family history that cannot be obtained from any other source with any amount of effort and expense.

Paul Guitar

DianeGines50 — 2008-02-21 19:31:22Z

I hit a wall looking for info on Paul Guitar, my 3rd great grandfather. I believe he married Anna Mary Heisel, who died in St Louis around 1914. They had four children, I believe (Elizabeth, Margaret, Louis, and Paulina). Any info on either one would be appreciated.

Guitar/Beach

ElisaSolis — 2007-04-28 05:05:51Z

I'm looking for parents of Nicholas Guitar and Theresa Beach, both born in France in the early 1820's. They immigrated to Michigan and had one daughter that I know of: Mary Anna Guitar, also born in France. Any information would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
leaves@happyhippie.com

Mary Ann Guitar of PA. in 1776

BasketLady420 — 2006-08-28 03:47:01Z

October 9, 1776:
If Mary Ann Harrison, whose maiden name is Guitar, late of this city, but supposed to have gone in the Country to Service, will return and enquire at Christopher Carren's, Taylor, in Chestnut street, she may hear of a sum of Money being left her by her husband, John Harrison, now going on another Voyage to the West Indies.

I am not related to this family, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled "Runaway Women, Elopements And Other Miscreant Deeds, As Advertised In The Pennsylvania Gazette - 1728 -1789. (together with a few abused wives and unfortunate children)." Compiled by Judith Ann Highley Meier. Published by Closson Press. 1993. Page 75.
Joyce

Mary Ann Guitar of PA. in 1776

BasketLady420 — 2005-12-12 21:05:37Z

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Tracing Guitar Ancestors with Y-DNA Testing

Paul Guitar

Guitar/Beach

Mary Ann Guitar of PA. in 1776

Mary Ann Guitar of PA. in 1776