Project Surnames
Masiker, Masker, Massaker, Mesecher, Mesker, Messecar
Project Background
For a few years we have believed that our common 1st ancestor was Michiel Miscaer (aka Mesger) who left Frankenthal, Germany in 1647 and landed in New Amsterdam (NYC).
We have a number of lines that can't be directly connected back to him. There have been over 40 variations over the years.These lines include Messecar, Mesecher, Masiker, Massaker & Mesker.
The purpose of this project is: to confirm our relationship to Michiel Miscaer/Mesger, our MRCA most recent common ancestor.
We now have a perfect Mesecher, Masker, Masiker & Massecar match. All 3 Messecar's did not match these other 4. So we now have 2 distinct lines that may only have a common ancestor 10-15,000 yrs ago. We have just confirmed our Massaker participant, but are still looking for a MESKER participant.
The Messecar results did match a Masker family on 34/37 markers. This Masker family, also from Sussex Co, NJ was tested o/s this Project. The results are close enough to be encouraging. We will still need other MASKER family results.