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 families who lived at the same geographical location – Adamthwaite Farm in Ravenstonedale in Westmoreland, or whether, if we were able to see into the distant past, we should discover that all the branches descend from a person known as Adamthwaite. 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.
In the first section of 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 testing could prove or disprove some of 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 linesYou can read more about the advantages of DNA testing in genealogical research on Family Tree DNA’s website
See the following pages to find our more about the Adamthwaite DNA project:
NEW!
calling all Adamthwaites:
the Adamthwaite quiz
contact details:
adamthwaite @ one-name.org
