An update to YFULL has been posted to version 10.00.00 with revised age calculations.

According to Mike Travers, who is still analyzing the data, the Vess branch (shown below) is estimated to have formed somewhere between 375 and 1000 years ago.

This is not an estimated date as to when our family took the VESS name, but an estimated date as to when our particular family line (R-FT19517) branched off with a new mutation.

The Travers and Vess families are still closely related and it still appears to included the Travers families from Ireland and England.

To learn more about our ancestral origins, we need more Y-testers from the TRAVERS, TRAVIS, and VESS families. Even a basic Y-37 test is helpful!

If you are a male descendant with the VESS, TRAVERS, or TRAVIS name, please consider joining our family DNA project. If you have any questions on how to get started, please email vessgenealogy@gmail.com or contact the project co-Admins.