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Project Surnames:

Barber	Barbor	Barbour

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05/09/07 - Charles Barber donation....$25
05/09/07 - Total available....$25

Project Background:

Research has so far uncovered at least 4 main Barber lines in America;
1) Thomas Barber born in England who came to the Connecticut colony as a carpenter in 1635.
2) Moses Barber born in the Rhode Island colony in 1652, Son of James Barber born in England, who came to the colony in approx. 1633.
3) William Barber, born in Drumcliffe Parish, County Sligo, Ireland in 1761. There were several prior generations in this area of northwestern Ireland. The earliest arrival was around 1656. He was a disbanded Cromwellian soldier according to the Schedule of Officers, claiming as soldiers under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, MSS, Record Office, Kew, London. Descendants of this line can be found today in Ireland, England, Canada, US and Australia.
4) Francis Barber who came alone aboard the Plaine Jone in 1635 landing in Virginia Colony. Later settled in NJ and is possibly the source of NJ Barbers.

This project will hopefully help Barber descendants identify their ancestry.

A surname itself may give us incomplete or misleading or, at best, only general information about the origin of a family, DNA-testing can give us concrete evidence for identifying and separating family lines. Y-chromosome DNA testing is especially helpful because the male Y-chromosome is handed down, father to son, unchanged through the generations, except for rare mutations which, in themselves, can be helpful indicators of branching. The accessibility and affordability of family DNA testing is doubtless the greatest technical advance in the history of genealogical research because -- at long, long last -- we have a tool to break down those brick walls!

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Project Goals:

The goal of the BARBER Surname Project is to distinguish between BARBER ancestral lines, worldwide. Any reasonable spelling variant is included (please feel free to suggest a variant you feel I have missed).

Please note that, at the outset, it makes sense to "cast the net widely." As the number of individuals tested increases and various lines become well defined, I will be more than happy to turn over these lines to other researchers specializing in them. I don't recommend splitting-up the project at the outset because I have a feeling we are in for some surprises with regard to where the divisions belong...

Project News:

5/08 WOW we now have 50 members! Of course the more members the better the chances for finding matches. I remember when it was just Johnny and myself in 2004 wondering if this would lead anywhere....
9/07 We now have results from the known CT and RI lines and have confirmed that the original Thomas (CT) and Moses(RI) are NOT related as was theorized.
December 2006 - 33 members and a new line from VA/NJ.
September 2006 - 25 memebers and quite a few matches! We need a CT Barber!
August 2006 - 23 members!!
June 2006 - 18 members now and a longtime member has an exact match with a new member - they are exploring possible connections.
May 2006 - 16 members strong!!!
15 Nov 2005 - More results matching the RI. line, and now we have a match with the Bates Sirname. Still trying to find the connection.
1 Jul 2005 - Results show that 2 members exactly match our RI cousin, and 1 memeber is very close with only 1 mismatch. More markers would help to identify the common ancestor. We are waiting on results for a new member.
9 Apr 2005 - We really need a member from the CT. Barbers!! Please recruit!!
8 Apr 2005 - One of the members knows he is from the RI Barbers. One of the others matches very closely with only 1 mismatch. One member is an exact match! The remaining member does not appear to be related.
3 Mar 2005 - Two results back, still waiting for the others. We need more members!!
19 Feb 2005 - Four Barbers have now joined. Waiting for results
19 Dec 2004 - as of this date, one BARBER has joined and results have returned.
29 Sep 2004 - the BARBER Surname Project was announced.

Project Results:

A few of the members are closely related and are exploring common backgrounds. We have an exact match with a sirname 'Bates' - it appears there was some unkown 'relations' a while back!

To date the results confirm that Barbers are most closely related to surnames from England.

Anthropologists break down the Y-chromosome into branches called Haplogroups or clades. Our Haplogroup results so far have all been R1b.
Haplogroup R1b is the most common haplogroup in European populations. It is believed to have expanded throughout Europe as humans re-colonized after the last glacial maximum 10-12 thousand years ago. This lineage is also the haplogroup containing the Atlantic modal haplotype.
Haplogroup R1b - is the most common Haplogroup in European populations. Its frequency changes in a cline from west (where it reaches a saturation point of almost 100% in areas of Western Ireland) to east (where it becomes uncommon in parts of Eastern Europe and virtually disappears beyond the Middle East). It is believed to have expanded throughout Europe as humans re-colonized after the last glacial maximum 10-12 thousand years ago. The members of R1b are thought to be the descendants of the first modern human Paleolithic hunter-gatherers who arrived in Europe before the last Ice Age about 40,000 years ago (Aurignacian culture). Those R1b forbearers were the people who painted the beautiful art in the caves in Spain and France. They were the modern humans who were the contemporaries - and perhaps exterminators - of the European Neanderthals. During the Last Glacial Maximum, about 18,000 years ago, the people bearing the R1b Haplogroup wintered in Northern Spain. After the glacial retreat about 12,000 years before present, R1b began a migration to the north in large numbers and to the east in declining numbers.
A R1b haplotype can be difficult to interpret in that they are found at relatively high frequency in the areas where the Anglo - Saxon and Danish "invaders" originally called home (e.g., 55% in Friesland), and even up to 30% in Norway. This Haplogroup is also characteristic of the Basques whose language is probably that of the first R1b, and who are genetically the closest to the original R1b population (which probably amounted to only a few thousand individuals). Contrary to common belief, the people who entered Europe about 4000 years ago and gave us the Indo-European languages, did not leave much of a genetic footprint on Western Europe.

My friend, Don Barber, has a wonderful site for extensive Barber genealogy and many Barber lines.
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Also check out cousin Bill's great site!
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