FAIRMAN DNA test results
We have just received our first FAIRMAN DNA results at www.familytreedna.com and the results were kind of surprising. The oldest Fairman ancestor we have is William B FAIRMAN born about 1860 in Jefferson County, NY. His son's name was Walter FAIRMAN.
The results came back that this line is from Haplogroup J2 instead of the standard R1b from western Europe and the UK which we were expecting. The closest DNA match we had was with a man from Syria. J2 is a middle eastern haplogroup and is frequently associated with Jewish background.
Has anyone encoutered Jewish FAIRMANs in mid 19th century New York ?
Lew Jenkins