A reminder that a DNA Project exists to try and determine relationships between the assorted SINTON lines.
A 3rd participant has registered, and any other SINTON males would be welcome.
Check out the project pages at
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/sinton/

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 SINTON families are 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.

Personally, at the moment I'm trying to find descendants of any families who were at Southdean who may connect to mine, or I believe do, but would like more proof:
- John and Mary (WILSON) SINTON of Mugglesfield, then Shotley Bridge, both Durham, England
- John & Alison (HALL) SINTON
- James and Janet (OLIVER) SINTON who had children born Burnkinford and Strangeburnfoot, Southdean

Regards
Lorna
Project Administrator, SINTON Surname DNA Project
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/sinton/
http://familytree.lornahen.com/spSINTON.htm

Update to the SINTON DNA project:
Two Southdean SINTONs have now been proven to be relations.
"my" lot, Peter & Janet (DONALDSON) SINTON, and the family of John & Alison (HALL) SINTON who married at Southdean in 1829, and are buried at Eckford.
Descendants of both are only a 12/12 match (so far), so it is rather hard to figure out exactly how they're related, but nevertheless, they are.

A fourth kit has yet to be processed - that of a descendant of the Jedburgh family of William SINTON and Isabella SCOTT.

Check out the pages below - more participants welcome.

Regards
Lorna
Project Administrator, SINTON Surname DNA Project
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/sinton/
http://familytree.lornahen.com/spSINTON.htm

An update for interested parties:
A dna match has been found between the descendants families of John and Alison (HALL) SINTON, and the descendants of "my" Southdean Peter & Janet (DONALDSON) SINTON.

As a result I've recently updated both the DNA Project pages, and my own SINTON pages in my signature below.

We have two more lines represented now:
Bob of the Irish SINTON contingent
and Roy of the Jedburgh family of William and Isabella (SCOTT) SINTON
both results still pending.

All other male direct SINTON line participants welcome.

Regards
Lorna
Project Administrator, SINTON Surname DNA Project
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/sinton/results
http://familytree.lornahen.com/spSINTON.htm

To monitor the changes to the SINTON Surname DNA Project, bookmark, or subscribe to, the SINTON DNA blog, sintondna@blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://sintondna@blogspot.com
The most recent exciting information is that Roy's participation has enabled us to say that the Jedburgh SINTONs (William and Isabella (SCOTT) SINTON), a lot of whose descendants ended up in New Zealand, are related, somehow, to the Southdean lineages.
Unfortunately we have no idea how!

The results table has been updated, as have the >Wanted! pages (http://dnasurnames.info/lineages/spwantedsintons.htm), to include William of Jedburgh on the Wanted list, given we'd like to see how a distant cousin of Roy can show whether or not the differences to the Southdean lineage crept in before or after the patriarch William

All SINTONs welcome!

Regards
Lorna
Project Administrator SINTON Surname DNA Project
http://worldfamilies.net/surnames/sinton/

And another update.
The Irish SINTONs and the Southdean SINTONs appear to be distantly related (a 34/37 marker match, with the unmatched markers being in the more volatile range of markers).

More participants are welcome, both distant cousins of those already tested, and new lines not yet represented.
All will help pinpoint how these matched lines join together.
Follow progress via the project diary at
http://sintondna.blogspot.com/

Regards
Lorna
Project Admin, Sinton Surname DNA Project
http://worldfamilies.net/surnames/sinton/