Hi folks,
If any of you are interested in how the assorted FAIRBAIRN families inter-relate, keep checking out the FAIRBAIRN dna project pages.

http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/fairbairn/

We've just had a 6th test order, two others are in varying stages of processing.
The first 3 participants turned out to be related.
You don't have to be a dna participant to submit pedigrees for the Patriarchs page which is intended to show the assorted lines.
If thinking about getting tested, there are some heavy discounts available until the end of August.
Follow the Join Project link to make sure you get offered the discounted rates (no I don't get a cut, I just want to see how closely all these FAIRBAIRN families are related).
Personally, at the moment I'm trying to find descendants of the following families who may connect to mine, or I believe do, but would like more proof:
- Robert FAIRBAIRN and Kate SCOTT (emigrated abt 1828 to Ontario settled around Napanee, Richmond area) Descendants include (I think) William and Catherine (MORGAN) FAIRBAIRN.
- Archibald FAIRBAIRN and Jane BLAKEY, from Northumberland, whose descendants look like they may be the FAIRBAIRNs of
Vegreville, Alberta
- James FAIRBAIRN and Mabel/Mary Bel THOMSON (descendants include Robert FAIRBAIRN and Isabella HENDERSON, Archibald FAIRBAIRN & Fanny WAITE, James FAIRBAIRN and Elizabeth WRIGHT)

Regards
Lorna
Project Administrator, FAIRBAIRN Surname DNA Project
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/fairbairn/
http://familytree.lornahen.com/spFAIRBAIRN.htm

Check out the DNA Project results pages for some interesting new updates.
Two more families have come up with a match (admittedly only at 12 markers so far).
So if anyone knows anything more about how Trotter and Jean (FAIRBAIRN) FAIRBAIRN, and James and Helen (GOODFELLOW) FAIRBAIRN link up, we'd all love to hear from you.
The representatives of these two families have come up with a 12/12 marker match with each other, and an 11/12 marker match with three of the previous tests, ie those of descendants of Archibald & Alison (CROSSER) FAIRBAIRN, William and Jean (WANLESS) FAIRBAIRN, and Archibald and Mary (GRIERSON) FAIRBAIRN.
The rest of the markers should be in shortly.
Feel free to add any comments to the FairbairnDNA blog at
http://fairbairndna.blogspot.com/.
Representatives of other lines most welcome to join in the fun.
Anyone out there descended from Robert and Janet (HOGARTH) FAIRBAIRN? The results in for that line have shown unexpected matches with several MONTGOMERY families, so a confirming lineage would be great.

Regards
Lorna
Project Administrator, FAIRBAIRN Surname DNA Project
http://worldfamilies.net/surnames/fairbairn/

Time I posted another update for the DNA project.
We now have 16 participants, and are still waiting on two results to get through processing, and one kit to make it back to the lab.
All bar two of those with some results already are looking related, albeit we don't know how for most of them.

The project HAS however proven that the family of Robert, miller of Vegreville, Alberta, whose parents were Archibald and Jane (BLAKEY) FAIRBAIRN, (emigrated from Northumberland in the early 1850s), does look extremely likely to belong to the family of Archibald and Janet (SCOTT) FAIRBAIRN.
http://dnasurnames.info/lineages/p1455.htm

Also that you cannot believe everything you read on marriage and death certificates, showing a good match between a descendant of John A FAIRBAIRN Snr (marr. Sarah DAUGHTERTY) of Stillwater, and a descendant of William, the brother of the David that now looks like John's father. (still with me? ).

Check out the Wanted! page
http://dnasurnames.info/lineages/spwantedfairbairns
for lines particularly seeking a representative.
However, all/any male FAIRBAIRNs from a line of father/son FAIRBAIRNs welcome to join and see where they might "fit".

Regards
Lorna
Project Admin FAIRBAIRN Surname DNA Project
http://fairbairndna.blogspot.com

And time for another update.
We now have results from 16 participants, with a further 4 somewhere in the pipeline.
12 of these are showing that most of the Borders FAIRBAIRNs are related, somehow.
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/fairbairn/results
The latest (preliminary) result in shows that the family of John FAIRBAIRN and Jessie JOHNSTON of Greenlaw also look highly likely to be connected to "Lineage 1".

Summary pedigree and result information is available at
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/fairbairn/
More detailed information on the people involved, with theoretical dna signatures on how they MIGHT connect, is available at
http://dnasurnames.info/lineages/spFAIRBAIRNLineages.htm

If you are a male FAIRBAIRN interested in your family history you would be most welcome to join the project to represent your line, or provide corroboration on lines represented by only one participant to date, and help us complete the jigsaw.

Known families we are particularly interested in finding (additional) representatives for are included on the Wanted! pages
http://dnasurnames.info/lineages/spwantedfairbairns.htm
(Bear in mind that the charts included are very abbreviated, only including those lines likely, or thought to be able, to produce an eligible participant.)

Check out the project diary
http://fairbairndna.blogspot.com/
for breaking news.
And if you have a favourite FAIRBAIRN web page to be linked to, contact me (scripted email available by clicking on my name above this posting)

Regards
Lorna
Project Admin for the FAIRBAIRN (and variants) Surname DNA Project
http://dnasurnames.info/p4.htm