Ivey-Ivie-Ivy DNA Surname Project

The two sets of test results labeled R1a-1 and R1a-2 are likely representatives of the Scandinavian line of the Ivey/Ivie/Ivy family in Europe. According to some written history, the family originated in the Scandinavian area of northern Europe, immigrated to Normandy (northern France), and later to England with the Norman invaders who under William the Conqueror attacked and conquered England in the year 1066.

The test result labeled R1a-1 is only somewhat similar to that of R1a-2. It differs by a genetic distance of 6 within 25 markers but so much within 37 markers as to be completely unrelated within genealogical time. The R1a-1 Haplotype (a given set of Y-DNA markers) is often referred to as "R1a-Norse". This test participant is a descendent of Isaiah Ivey of Marlboro Co, SC, but this is not the same Isaiah identified in the Haplogroup E1b1a as a son of James and Mourning Ivey.

A connection between the two groups of R1a Iveys is most likely thousands of years back in Europe or even Asia. They are certainly not directly related through a direct paternal line within genealogical history.

 

The ancestors of these participants most likely came directly from Europe, either with the first immigrants in the early 17th century such as the Thomas Ivey/Ivy of Virginia or possibly later immigrants. The two individuals in the R1a-2 group are clearly related and differ by only a single CDYa marker out of 37. This CDYa marker is also notoriously "hot", and can change often within a family line.