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ADAMTHWAITE DNA PROJECT
in association with
For many years, members of the
Adamthwaite mailing list have pondered on whether or not the different
branches of the Adamthwaites all originate from the same geographical
location – Adamthwaite Farm in Ravenstonedale in Westmorland.
Certainly, all the earliest records point to there being two main
families – one family group based in Ravenstonedale in
Westmorland and another family group less than 10 miles away across the
county border in Sedbergh in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with a
few scattered individuals further east in Yorkshire and one or two in
the City of London.
On this website, you can see how
we have reconstructed
nine main family lines, and have
been able to indicate how the vast majority of Adamthwaite individuals
link in to these lines; and although we have recently demonstrated how
two pairs of these lines link up, we just don’t have enough early paper
records to find a connection between the others. DNA could prove or
disprove our theories in constructing these lines, as well as helping to
show whether or not more (or even all) of the lines are connected.
The main objectives of the DNA
Project are:
- to validate the construction of
the existing nine lines of Adamthwaites, as set out on the
Adamthwaite Archive
- to investigate possible links
between the separate lines
You can read more about the
benefits of DNA testing in genealogical research on
Family Tree DNA’s website
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