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Description
SEARS, SEAR, SIER, SIERS, SYAR, SYARS, SYER, SYERS, SYAS, SIAS, ZIER, CYR, SAYRE, SAYRES, SEIR, SEARE, SEERE, SEEARS, SAYER, SAYERS, SOARES, TZIORZ, ZAHER and any other reasonable spelling variations are welcome to join the project. Only males have Y-chromosomes, so only male SEARS/etc. can participate. If you are female, you can have a male SEARS/etc. relative submit a sample for your line. To participate meaningfully, testees will need to share their direct male line ancestry back to the earliest known SEARS/etc., as a pedigree (excluding living persons).
We would like our project page to be friendly for the testers to meet their goals of tracing their first ancestors. In North American no less than 75 males with some variation of our surname migrated prior to 1750 and so far not a single one is related to the other. This project is barely off the ground in identifying them all.
The family coat of arms below has been adopted by North American representatives of the Sears Family. While typically used by the Descendants of Richard Sears of Yarmouth it is not granted to any particular person here. More about the many Sears progenitors can be seen on Wikitree at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Sears_Progenitors
Requirements
A Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname. They are of the most interest in cultures where surnames are passed on from father to son like the Y-Chromosome. This project is for males taking a Y-Chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) test. Thus, the individual who tests must be a male who wants to check his direct paternal line (father's father's father's...) with a Y-DNA12, Y-DNA37, Y-DNA67, or Y-DNA111 test and who has one of the surnames listed for the project. Females do not carry their father's Y-DNA. Females who would like to check their father's direct paternal line can have a male relative with his surname order a Y-DNA test. Females can also order an mtDNA test for themselves such as the mtDNAPlus test or the mtFullSequence test and participate in an mtDNA project. Both men and women may take our autosomal Family Finder test to discover recent relationships across all family lines.
Surnames In This Project
Cyr, Sayer, Sayers, Sayre, Sayres, Sear, Seare, Sears, Seears, Seere, Seir, Sias, Sier, Siers, Soares, Syar, Syars, Syas, Syer, Syers, Tziorz, Zaher, Zier