I am pleased to see that another Carroll has his Y-DNA test results returned by FTDNA.
(See Kevin's Carroll Family website.) This participant tested at all 37 markers at
FTDNA.
FTDNA did not give him a haplogroup assignment, but inputting his 37 results into Whit
Athey's haplogroup predictor, he gets 41 on a scale of 0 to 100, as of haplogroup E3a.
Whit Athey calls this a fair fit. His paternal lineage is therefore probably recent
African, i.e., African American, although Athey's calculator also gave him values of
29 and 29 for haplogroups E3b and G. Again fair fits according to Athey. These
haplogroups are associated with Turkey and the mid-east.
So why the surname Carroll? It may be because Carrolls in Colonial America kept slaves,
including Charles Carroll of Carrollton. There was a study done on African-American slave
surnames at the University in Mississippi online several years ago. I believe Carroll was
one the surnames listed in that survey.
Our Carroll Y-DNA project is maturing, but has so far to go yet. The current E3a Mr.
Carroll has chosen to not post his lineage, as yet. My Carrel/Carroll R1a ancestors seem
more and more to be from Central Europe. Actually Czech, Slovakian or perhaps Hungarian.
The jury is still out. The rest of the Carroll participants seem to be of Irish
extraction, and probably haplogroup R1b.
Eric Olson
Carroll-DNA-L Administrator