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The Melungeon DNA Surname Project http://www.melungeons.com/articles/melungeondnaproject.htm#HARRE
SAYLOR and HARRY / HARRE
These two families are discussed together because they were both German/Swiss, arrived in Maryland by the 1760's and married multiple times to each other. By 1778, one of the Saylor/Harry children, a daughter named Magdalen, had married George Nye/Ney/Nigh. The Ney family was also from Germany/Switzerland and has Semitic DNA and a known Jewish ancestry.
Quite remarkably, the Harry and Saylor DNA scores are a 12/12 match with each other and also are a 12/12 match with the Caldwell, Yates and Ramey DNA scores. This means that Elizabeth Hirschman paternal ancestors shared the same DNA from three different sources within two generations and also that this DNA matched one of Hirschman's mother's ancestral DNA lines (Yates).
It also means that Don Panther-Yates' paternal DNA and that of his wife, Teresa, match each other. Further, all of these matings took place within a 200 or so mile radius by folks coming from four different European countries (Germany, France, England and Scotland). Finally, they were all carrying a DNA pattern centered in Iberia/Spain. Of course the odds of this happening by chance are virtually nil.
These data strongly support, we propose, a purposeful pattern of migration and intermarriage by Sephardic Jews who knew of each other's existence and ancestry and were somehow able to communicate with one another over great distances. Notably, at least some members of these families appear to have been aware of their Jewish ancestry up through the late 1800's when we find Saylors marrying, for example, persons surnamed Israel, Wolf and Meyer and naming children Ephraim, Levi, Abraham, Jacob, Solomon and Jalana.
Surname Index
Alexander Cartier Douglas Harry Kooper Nigh Sizemore Wallen
Anderson Caldwell Eliakim Harre Lasley Nye Symeson Wampler
Aytes Campbell Flores Hatchett Laudislau Oetz Skeen Yates
Ball Casto Forbes Hooper Lea Painter Skipwith Yeats
Berry Chaffin Gates Howards Leslie Panton Sofer Yats
Blevins Chapin Getz Hughes Ludwig Pardo Spier Yeatts
Bowles Chase Givan Israel McAbee Perry Spiro
Bolling Christy Givens Jackson Meyer Ramey Stelitz
Bolzano Christie Goetz Jette Miller Remey Utz
Boone Cismor Green Jets Moore Sapiro Williamson
Brown Cooper Guion Jobe Morea Sargent Wolfe
Bruce Coupard Hale Katz Morehead Sephards Wolf
Bozen Cuoper Harris Kieffer Muir Shaeffer Wampler
Carter Dale Hart Kuepfer Ney Sisemores Walden
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