creators_name: Plant, John S creators_name: Plant, Richard E creators_id: plant@one-name.org creators_id: replant@ucdavis.edu type: other datestamp: 2014-08-24 21:04:39 lastmod: 2015-04-20 11:41:00 metadata_visibility: show title: English Surnames: DNA, plural origins and emigration ispublished: pub subjects: bio-pop subjects: comp-sci-stat-model full_text_status: public keywords: DNA surnames onomastics simulations abstract: Since the turn of the millennium, DNA testing has helped with establishing the sizes of biological descent families within surnames. Some surnames have a dominant family: their remaining populations can be ascribed either to NPEs (non paternity events)or to smaller separate-origin families. Previously, there was no direct evidence as to how large each male-line family could grow within a surname, considering that real-life plural-origin surnames could contain a few or many separate-origin families of various sizes. However, DNA testing is providing evidence to help indicate in particular the size of the largest male-line medieval descent family in a surname. We here perform statistical analyses of some relevant DNA results. This allows us to compare the DNA results with some predicted findings from our computer simulations. date: 2014-06-14 date_type: published refereed: TRUE citation: Plant, Dr John S and Plant, Prof Richard E (2014) English Surnames: DNA, plural origins and emigration. document_url: http://cogprints.org/9748/1/ESDE-Guild-June2014.pdf