Singer

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Out of 32 members, results for most members is in; however, some results may still be pending. There are 26 YDNA members, and a few more female members whose results do not show on the YDNA results chart.  The Haplogroup designation for each of the twenty tested members are as follows:E1b1a,E1b1b1, two are J2, two are I1,R1a1, fourteen are R1b1b2. There is a match between fourteen members. The country of origin of these fourteen matching members is three from Germany,three from Switzerland, and seven unknown.The country of origin known by the 24 tested members is Russian Federation, Poland, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Unknown. The fourteen matching members are considered by the statistics of FTDNA as being related. The generational breakdown for sharing a common ancestor by FTDNA for the 37 marker match for two of the matching members is 74.92% in 12 generations, 90.3% in 16 generations, 96.66% in 20 generations and 98.94% in 24 generations.  Matching group members are from the line of Johannes Sanger (Singer)who came on St. Andrew in 1734 with his wife Catrina  and daughter Catrina;as well as from Nicolaus Sanger , a neighbor of Johannes Singer who shared a common land border in Whitpain Pa. in 1752. Nicolaus Sanger came to Pennsylvania on the ship the Roayal Union in 1750 with his wife Margaret, son Jacob, and daughter Margaret. Another member of the group descending from Nicolaus Sanger's son Jacob is an exact match up to 25 markers to the Johannes Singer descendant. The two other matching members to John Anson Singer who represents the line of Johannes Singer are gentlemen at an exact match at the 25 markers and a genetic distance of 1 at 37 markers. This translates to sharing a common ancestor within the past 8 generations at 88.33%, going to 97.21% in 12 generations. One of these members ancestor is Nicholaus Eberhardt Zenger (a teacher from Canton of Bern Switzerland)who died on board a ship in 1710 as he, his wife, one daughter, were coming to this country. His son John Peter Zenger went on to become a printer and as a result we have freedom of the press in this country.It is thought the matching member descended from John Peter's brother Johannes Zenger born in 1703 in Rumbach Germany.  Johannes Zenger received a land grant in 1746 and farmed near Sand Hill Lutheran Church in Swatara Creek Derry Township Lancaster County(now Dauphin) Pa. He and his wife, Barbara were parents of several children. Two books called House of Sanger have been written about two of the children of John and Barbara. One book is about their son John and his family. The other book is about their son Conrad and his family.  The will of Jacob Singer who died in 1800 from Derry Township Dauphin Co. Pa (Lancaster Co before 1785) shows that he is the son of Johannes and Barbara Zenger (Singer) as Conrad is in the will as a witness. His son Ephriam has some female decendants with whom email contact has been made- our DNA group would like a male decendant from Ephriam to join us. Jacob's wife is Fremy in the will (thought to be short for Veronica). They also had Jacob, John, Daniel, Ephriam and some girls. John Singer who is buried at Sand Hill (1773-1829) is thought to be son of Jacob and Veronica. A Jacob Singer was born to Jacob and Veronica on the exact day and year as John Singer who is buried at Sand Hill. It is a strong possibility that John Singer and Jacob Jr. were twins. According to the will of Jacob d. 1800 and some land grants- John Singer 1773-1829 lived next to Jacob Sr. The will states that Jacob Jr. lived on his father Jacob's land. Two of our group members are an exact match at the 37 marker. One of these members comes from John Singer 1773-1829. The other is from George Singer b. 1813 to a father named John Senger. It is a strong possibility that George is John's (1773-1829's) son; however we are still trying to prove this. The DNA strongly supports this theory.
The other matching member with a genetic distance of 1 from John Anson Singer and a genetic distance of two from two other members is a descendant of Samuel Singer born 1792 in the Emmitsburg (Creegerstown) area of what is now Frederick County Maryland. This Samuel is thought to be the son of Samuel Singer of Emmitsburg area (b.1748). Since the DNA matched to such a close degree- it is thought that Samuel Singer b. 1748 is the son of Johannes and Catherine Singer of the ship the St. Andrew 1734. This project was started in part to find Samuel Singer who was still alive as he was mentioned in his mother's will in 1783- but it was not know where he had moved to. It is now thought that all of the descendants of Samuel Singer of Emmitsburg are from Johannes and Catherine Singer. Many of these Singer's are from the Ohio area- as Samuel (b. 1792 moved to Carddingtown Township as well as George Singer son of John Singer (son of Samuel b. 1748) and Felix Singer son of Samuel (b. 1748) also moved to Ohio. The matching members are now trying to figure out who and where the common ancestor is of Johannes Singer, Nicholaus Sanger, and Eberhardt Zenger. Rumbach and Ober Lustadt are located within a few miles of each other. The last matching member's ancestor was Hans Johannes Binggeli (John Binkley). He emmigrated to Pennsylvania - what is now Lancaster County during the early 1700's. The family believes he departed from German Palatinate as a miller after having fled Switzerland. There are also matches with several other Binkley, Bingelli, Mussleman families who are from the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. The Canton of Bern was settled in the 1200's by a German family. The member which is from Eastern Europe- haplogroup R1a1's grandfather was Benjamin Singer from Russia- what is now probably Belarus. Benjamin Singer came to America in 1867 on board the S S Weiland out of Hamburg. He settled in Philadelphia and married Rebecca Goldstein. If this sounds familiar to you please contact group administrator so that group member can be contacted.  We encourage all Singer, Sanger, Senger,Songer, Zenger, or other variants to join our group and create more DNA results from which other Singer, Sanger, Senger's, Songer's and Zenger's can find a match and learn information through DNA testing that was unable to be found out any other way. Even without a match valuable information is learned as to Haplogroup. This alone can give an answer as to what region of the world your ancestors came from.
(members can enter information on the country in which they now reside or the country of their ancestral origins through the User Preferences and Contact Information of the members personal page)
Some information from Jan Binkley who has been a great help in researching the  Binkley/Bingelli matches provides the following information about when the BINGGELIs arrived in Germany." It began with the question of when the first BINGGELI was leasing the farmstead at Immelhausen in the Kraichgau -- 1650 or later -- but it would apply also to those who went to Alsace, Zweibrucken, and the western Pfalz. 
Elisabeth Kludas reported that the exodus from Canton began in the 1650s, but those from mostly came starting in the 1670s.
I just found an explanation for that latter date in the book by Leu & Scheidegger on the Zurich Mennonites (p. 242). Here's my casual translation from the German:  In Jul 1670 the Reformed cantons of Switzerland agreed to start letting Mennonites take their property with them when they left , providing they got out by whatever date the cantonal government set. If they didn't leave, their entire property would be confiscated  and they would be thrown out anyhow.
In , the gov't gave the Mennonites  to sell all their property and leave, which was of course impossible.  By  there were about 1,000 penniless Bernese refugees in Alsace and the Pfalz begging the Mennonites in Holland for help. 
The situation never got resolved in Zurich -- Mennonite emigrees in the Pfalz were still pleading with the Zurich  gov't for their confiscated property at the end of the century."
Many of our group members share a common ancestor to what appears to be Canton of Bern area Switzerland with Guggisberg being a strong possibility- . Some matches have a Mennonite background, and some have a Lutheran Reformed background.