Initial goals displayed several years ago below in bold have broadened.  Since inception we have discovered genetic bridges to some early colonial Freeman lines with Fielding Sudduth coming under the James H. Freeman (1725-1792) Faquier County, Va paternal line. In addition there is an earlier SNP bridge to the Samuel Freeman b abt 1760 lines represented by Walter Freeman and his closer family testers in the project. We are currently working with descendants  of Robert Smith (1626-1693) as well as a Moores line represented by Peter Moores of London, England who believes his descent came from a Freeman line in Dublin, Ireland though much of that tree resided in England for much of it's life. The Robert Smith branches include the Mormon founder Joseph Smith (1809-1844) among it's lines. This is currently the oldest paper trailed line in the project going back to the aforementioned Robert Smith in 1626.  Everyone in the group matches the Smiths at the grouping of A361, FGC35855 & FGC35856 with the separation at FGC35857. It is likely that these different branches of the same Freeman/Smith/Smyth lines came to America from different points in the UK as Walter Freeman for instance has evidence of an Irish exodus to Colonial America. The goal is to find descendants of these purported tree matches overseas and have them test to see if we match which would link our American trees to our distant UK cousin lines. (05 July 2021)

Initial project aims are to recruit Sudduth (and derivative surnames) paternal lines and solidify the current Fielding Sudduth (1785-1862) branches already in the project. The Fielding Sudduth descendent's goal is to merge his branch with the various other Sudduth, Suddeth, Suddath, Suddarth etc lines into a Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) and hopefully find a definitive bridge from Fielding to those groups. Broadly, it is the administrators hope to find out where we fit into the M222 NW Irish Paternal Haplogroup (our haplogroup) as there are still a lot of questions on the origin of the surname and this particular haplogroup happens to be made up mostly of the gaels of N Ireland and lowland Scotland.