Creer DNA Study

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Creer from the Isle of Man DNA Study

Current genealogical research has already established that the Creer family groups, recorded as originating on the Isle of Man (IOM), were at least present on the Island from around 1500. A number of distinct Creer family trees have been identified and recorded covering the period 1600-2005 and a database of some 19,000 Creer family history events (births, marriages and deaths) from around the world has been assembled.

Some 70% of these events have been identified and attributed to individual distinguishable Creer family groups (n=60), all being traced back to origins in the IOM. Hence today there is a relatively clear picture of how different Creer families have emigrated from the IOM and scattered around the world to a number of countries including England, the USA, Australia and Canada. No significant migration occurred until the early 1800's and prior to that, for at least 300 years, the Creer families were born and died almost exclusively on this small island.

The earliest, surviving, written records show that in 1511 there were only 7-8 Creer families (at that time McCrere) on the IOM, all living no more than 5 miles from each other. Current genealogical research is examining the early land records of that time, to try and understand :-

	how these original families were connected to each other if at all - and
	how these original families evolved into the Creer family groups of today, that have been identified and recorded subsequently.

This current research is proving slow and difficult owing to the age of such records, their inaccessibility, incompleteness and lack of detail.

Therefore a new and supplementary approach is being adopted, namely that of Y Chromosome analysis of Creer males known to have originated from the Isle of Man. Such a DNA study is capable of identifying whether groups of men with the same surname are related to each other and/or whether they all are descendants of one common ancestor. This study has now been established and male Creer participants are actively being sought. Please go here for more information - Creer DNA Study