Results
Help recruit participants!
Just think what we could do with more project members.
With only one participant in the surname project, we had already found a 36/37 match with another ftDNA testee.
This indicates a (distant) relationship between the Berwickshire families of:
Archibald FAIRBAIRN and Alison CROSSER
and
Archibald FAIRBAIRN and Mary GRIERSSEN/GIESSEN/GRIERSON
As they were contemporaries, the earliest link would have to be a shared grandfather.
This second Archibald was subsequently found to be the son of a Robert and Agnes (LANDRETH) FAIRBAIRN who married in St Boswells, Roxburghshire in 1757, Robert being the son of a John and Bessie (FFLINT) FAIRBAIRN.
And then a descendant of William and Jean (WANLESS) FAIRBAIRN who emigrated to Quebec) showed a 37/37 marker match with one of the above, and 36/37 with the other.
Family believe this latter line is from that of John and Helen (ANDERSON) FAIRBAIRN so it would be great to find participants from that family to help prove this.
Subsequent results keep adding to the John/Bessie lineage, although we do now have two other lines represented.
Check out the Patriarchs page and related project pages on World Families as that will list all end of line FAIRBAIRN families that have been identified, either contributed by others or known by myself, tested or not.
Wouldn't it be great to combine a few of them up into single trees?
See also the Project Diary