The Weiser-Wiser-Wysor Surname Project has been established to help map possible connections between these related early American and European "Old Country" surnames.  This surname project uses the two-volume Weiser Families in America, published by the John Conrad Weiser Family Association in 1997, as a primary reference.  This work identifes the descendants of Johann Conrad Weiser, Sr. (1662–1746), a German Palatine immigrant who traveled to present-day New York with eight of his children in 1710.  It also highlights a number of other early American Weiser-Wiser-Wysor families which, at the time of its publishing, could not be connected to Johann Conrad Weiser or his descendants.  The purpose of this surname project is to use modern Y-DNA technology to assist in determining potential connections between these surname lines.

The goal of this surname project is to determine which early American Weiser-Wiser-Wysor surname lines documented in the Weiser Families in America share a common "Weiser" ancestor and approximately how many generations back this common ancestor may have lived.  This information will assist in determining the European geographic origins of these early Weiser and variant surname lines.

If you do not have access to the two-volume Weiser Families in America and would like to know if your earliest known Weiser-Wiser-Wysor ancestor is featured in this family history reference, please e-mail the Group Administrator (see above) with your ancestor's full name and dates of birth/death, if known, and a look-up will be performed for you.  Thank you.