The Pomeroy tests are the largest set of DNA tests conducted on a one-name group to date anywhere in the world.
Interim results are viewable here .
They create a genetic framework for the POMs into which we may be able to fit any other male POMs, including those abroad, who wish to test to find out to whom they are related and thus where they may originally be from. DNA testing is in its very earliest stages as a tool for family historians. The results of the first attempt to link DNA analysis in a one-name type study for the surname Sykes were released in April 2000. The results have potentially startling implications for family historians. The Oxford University geneticist, Professor Bryan Sykes, mailed 250 randomly chosen men in the three counties in Britain where the name Sykes is most common.