Are you sure he wasn't adopted or could he have been apprenticed to him and
assumed his surname.My husband matches two different men so one had to either
assume a name or was adopted.I have a cousin line that changed their name when
they moved across the Ohio from Ky to Illinois.Look around to see if you can find
adoptions or apprenticeships in the area where they lived.
On Wed , Sally Phillips sent:
>We can trace my husband on paper back to one George Phillips, sea captain
>on the Pamunkey in Virginia in 1680. However, when my husband had his DNA
>tested for a lark, he came back as a Fitzhugh. The definitive biography
>of William Fitzhugh the Immigrant back in the 1600s gives the information
>that William Fitzhugh used one George Phillips as his sea captain to ship
>his tobacco to London. The book includes several letters Fitzhugh wrote
>to Phillips. It also explains that Fitzhugh enjoyed socializing with his
>sea captains and their families.
>We'll never be able to prove it, but it looks to us like William Fitzhugh
>socialized just a little too closely with Mrs. George Phillips, possibly
>while her husband was at sea with his tobacco! We would never have known
>without the DNA test.
>Sally Phillips
>
>--- On Thu, 8/13/09, Al Adams wrote:
>
>
>From: Al Adams
>Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Faris/Farris
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 11:12 AM
>
>
>Trueman,
>
>I believe that you will find that many who have had their DNA tested
>arein the same situation.
>
>There are a few in our DNA group who are Adams, and we all descend from
>Robert Adams of Goochland, VA (c1685-1740). There are several
>identicalDNA matches who descend from a Gilley in the early 1700's. We
>certainlyhave a common ancestor about 1600- 1700. We don't know if we are all
>Adams or all Gilley's.
>
>There were many adoptions, children taken in by families and quite a
>fewaccidental or not so accidental children.
>
>One thing that I am pretty sure of, DNA does not believe in family
>lore.
>Al Adams
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tarter, Brent (LVA) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:56 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Faris/Farris
>
>Hello, all.
>DNA has uncovered a similar situation with my ancestor, George M.
>Faris/Farris, who according to Census reports was born about 1769 in
>Virginia, county unknown. My DNA test matches that of no Farris listed
>to
>date.
>A lady has told me that her brother's DNA indicates that he is a
>Morris,.
>Yet his DNA matches more than 30 of my markers. So am I a Farris or a
>Morris?
>HELP!
>Trueman Farris tefarri
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