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This is a follow-up to my previous post.
Last year I announced on this board that I hoped that other male Gachs would join me in a study of Y-chromosome DNA, which as you may know only males carry, but my message did not draw any participants.
Y-DNA allows us to bridge the gaps between the various Gach families which were spread out across Central Europe and for whom we have no documents. A week ago I decided that I was tired of waiting on other Gach males to come forward so I started the Gach yDNA Surname Project myself at www.worldfamilies.net. You can see it by following this link: www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/g/gach/ .
I have posted my yDNA test results on the "Results" page and what little I know of my Gach line on the "Patriarchs" page. My documented line starts with my great-grandfather Antoni Gach who was born before 1862 at Korchow in what is now southeast Poland. I believe that his father's name was Jan Gach but the parish records are not available for the years before 1862.
Above my line on that page you will see a Gach family from Pisek in old Bohemia (one of whose members has submitted a sample) and above that you will see the line of the Gach family from Neumarkt in old Galicia (now Nowy Targ, Poland) (one of whose members has also submitted a sample).
As only males carry the Y-chromosome it makes a great way to trace the degree of relationship between families who bear the same surname but have no documented proof that they are indeed related. Given that only males carry yDNA only males can be tested for it, I hope that of every Gach family with whom I am in contact will have at least one representative in this study.
Please ask any male Gachs you may know to contact me about this subject.
Thank you,
Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane
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