Scaife Study Group

Introduction

The Scaife DNA Project was set up in June 2008 to establish the truth concerning the more distant relationships between the branches of the Sc/kaife family which are distributed across the UK, North America and Australasia. DNA Heritage was chosen as the company who would be perform the tests, mainly because their 43-marker package was thought to represent better value money than some of the competitors offerings with respect to the cost per marker tested. There was an initial trial with five individuals participating in order to familiarize ourselves with the procedure.

We now wish to open this up to include other Scaifes and thus move towards some concrete and scientific-based evidence about our family's origins.