BARNABY SURNAME PROJECT- Background

Background

Our immigrant is a "Mystery Man".
We hope that this DNA study will advance our long and challenging search to discover whether ENGLAND was indeed the home country of "The Barnaby Immigrant".
Our immigrant appears to have left no BMD records to reveal his date of birth,country of origin,date or place of death,names of his parents or siblings (if any)
We have only a ten year window on his life where a few bare facts are known.
We have learned the name of his wife,the date and place of their marriage,birth records of two sons and his estimated death date.

The end-of-the-line of our particular branch of the BARNABY family has arrived.
The newest BARNABY was born in MARYLAND in 2005.
Of course this infant may,one day,have brothers and descendants.
Considered to be the perfect baby gift a Y-DNA test kit was ordered by the the BARNABY PROJECT historian for this newest and last of line BARNABY.
One unknown Barnaby has already participated in FTDNA testing.

Three men with identical names - "Alvin P Barnaby" - caused confusion at the early stages of the research particularly since the full middle name rarely appeared on any primary or lesser genealogical resource.
Recently this "Family Historian" has disentangled three Barnaby males -
Alvin PERRY Barnaby was the father of Alvin POPE Barnaby and Horace T Barnaby
Horace T Barnaby was the father of Alvin PAUL Barnaby.
Birth and Death years for these individuals are given below -
Alvin PERRY Barnaby (1793 - Aft 1850)
Alvin POPE Barnaby (1821 - 1881)
Horace T Barnaby (1823 - 1917)
Alvin PAUL Barnaby (1865 - 1906)
This information has been shared with quite a few other Barnaby researchers.
Some of these researchers have contributed to online Internet sites,sometimes with attribution of their source.

Online at (www.familysearch.org) is an "Ancestral pedigree file" purporting to be that of a "Captain Ambrose Barnaby born 1706".
This file contains a classic example of a "Man born before his father" error and although published before the advent of comprehensive research on the Internet it demonstrates the need for meticulous primary sourcing