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In 2007 the administrator had reached a dead end in research to connect her branch Fairchild earliest ancestor to one of the known branches in America. There are at least the following immigrant lines in America: Connecticut branch (Thomas Fairchild) Southern Fairchild branches [Charleston, S.C.](Thomas and Richard Fairchild ) Immigrants after 1700: Alonzo, Archibald, James, James, John, John A., John, John, John, Major, Richard, Richard, Robert, Thomas, William and a host of unaligned branches. This project is an attempt to investigate whether any of the unaligned branches connect to known lines or are new lines, and to identify the immigrants' English, Scots, Irish or German origins. Recommended books for Fairchild: Gilmore, Jean Fairchild, Gilmore, Jean Fairchild, Understanding DNA Testing: Family Tree DNA provides information to help you understand DNA testing. Most people start by looking at projects which fit their surname. There are also excellent explanations of Y-DNA (male DNA) testing and mtDNA (female DNA) testing accessed from the left column. On the lower right column are articles which give you a deeper understanding of DNA. An excellent tutorial on DNA is found on the Blair Surname site called DNA 101. Recommended books for understanding DNA are: Colleen Fitzpatrick & Andrew Yeiser, Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak and Ann Turner, . Books featuring DNA in the British Isles and Ireland are: Stephen Oppenheimer, Bryan Sykes, (published in Great Britain as ). If you still have questions, contact Susan Fairchild Barry – barry.sf at gmail.com Please note that the FTDNA Surname Group Administrators are not FTDNA employees. They do not receive any form of financial payment or any other incentive or reimbursement. The administrator of this project is a member of the International Society for Genetic Genealogy.