Merrick DNA World Project Website- Background

Background

Merrick: In the present family line we have the famous producer Daniel W. Merrick of Hollywood son of David Merrick, a clearly Jewish Origin. Then we have me, Daniel W. Merrick, Ph.D. son of Robert W. Merrick son of Walter T. Merrick. Did we come from the same line? Why is my name the exact same as David Merrick’s son? I was raised protestant but still believe myself to be a Jew. Is it an inner spiritual sense or is my research on the family line, which I love so well, the result of an ancient fraud? The Welsh line is clear. No doubt of that. So what if we go deeper into the past?

Manuscripts from Wales and England, the Vatican and Scotland, seem to be telling us a story which I have published in ‘The History and Genealogy of Merrick’ a compliment to the George Byron Merrick book from 1902. In addition I have one of the only surviving copies of Alice Meyrick’s Genealogy which recounts her work as an advisor to ‘Gone With The Wind’, the story of the southern Meyrick lines.
Also a sister project with the northern US branch of the family "Myrick" line with which we are sharing information.

My Merrick lines are from Mostyn MS. 117 which dates from the late thirteenth century. The earliest being Peniarth MS.45 of the second half of the thirteenth century. It overlaps with both the Harleian MS. 3859 and the Jesus College MS.20 (998-1400) Now during the period of the Safrahime, 400BC to 70AD, many bought genealogy to claim kinship to Abraham. So are we really Jews as the manuscripts suggest? Did we come from Merari? (Num.26:57) Is Levi and Abraham our father? Is the phonetic root preserved from Merari to Merrick as I suggest in my works? Only our DNA will tell. To match, I need one from the clear paper trackable line of Israel Merrick from Md. and Tioga County PA.