The Phillips DNA Project

Information about Group 10

One of the members of our family, Group 10, recently had Tribe DNA testing because his grandmother was of mixed race.  The interesting thing was that there was no Welsh blood indicated, only Scotch-Irish.  This could indicate that the participants in Group 10 are of Scotch-Irish ancestry.  The report indicated that his distant relatives were from The Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Glasgow, Scotland.  Our family does know that Sarah Hay, the beginning of our clan in Russell County, Virginia, who married John Phillips, was of Scotch descent; however, we thought that John was most likely Welsh.  Again, DNA testing is a wonderful way of answering many of our questions.  As far as the testing on the "mixed race" grandmother, the results were extraordinary.  She came from Caribbean and Lumbee Indian blood.  The biggest percentage was from Garifuna (black Carib) and Honduras.  It's hard to imagine that these people were in Eastern Kentucky prior to the Civil War.

Linda Phillips