Re: De Vere aka Weir DNA
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Re: De Vere aka Weir DNA
Debra Hood 10/03/10
Sooner or later you will start to get hits using DNA....
Use YSearch......you can punch in your numbers: say once a month: and start finding links:
Use 25 markers first.........that will give you not necessarily the family:
but geography...........(hit the key that says: With people who have used at least......key in 25.......markers that I did)
You want only 25 out of 25 matches............
So you may find 20 surnames: all landing in and around Germany.........or wherever: and that will give you a feel of who your ancestor was connected to.
The Germans started arriving in North Carolina basically in the mid 1700s...most drifting in from the Virginias.....where they were arriving since 1608
but were not successful in settling until 1714..........all 42 were miners from north west Siegen Germany
In 1717 another 100 arrived from Badden-Wurttemburg:
who were all sold as servants to Alexander Spottswood
Another small group came in 1721 in Culpeper County:
most relatives of the preceeding settlers.
However between 1683 and 1775 100,000 Germans migrated from Philadelphia down the Great Wagon Road.....
Philadelphia was the most common destination for Germans fleeing religious issues, taxation and wars.
As they travelled down this road: whenever they spotted good settling land: they would farmstead.........and in many cases this is what took them as far south as the Carolinas
1740 and 1790 were key German settlement times: Jost Hite had been granted 100,000 acres which he was reselling to various other Germans in the 100-500 acres sizes...
so with this history of these regions: and the name Wyer:
you are probably completely correct that your ancestor is German.........it is highly consistent........
They likely were living close to relatives: so checking out some land grants as to who lived next door could give you clues as well as to where they came from.........
otherwise definitely check Philadephia records:
they may have been in the usa sooner than you realized: