Monday, June 17, 2013

12 Marker - Exact Matches

The folks who have shown a 12 marker exact match to my own DNA have some very different sounding surnames.  Say what!...was my first response to this finding.  These folks were to have shared a common ancestor some 1000 years ago. [Roughly around the time of the Norman invasion to the island.]  The following are those surnames.

Amshoff
Boyle
Claxton
Doharich
Sharp
Gilmore
Johnson
Weirich
Pritchard
Gill
Leonard
Pearson
Fouriner
Uttridge
Muradoglu
Maudire-Janton
Tilton

... say what!

Are there any folks out there with the surnames above who have done their DNA?  Would love to try and make the historical connections to these surnames?  Our common ancestors must have been close by around 1100 AD...!