Barnard Surname
DNA Project
Barnard Surname
DNA Project
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In case some of our friends have not yet heard, we recently suffered a sad loss in the death of a good friend and group member. Dr. Walther Barnard was one of our co-administrators and an authority on North American Barnard families, and cooperated with Bill Barnard and Edward Townsend Barnard in the original production of the 'Barnard Little Red Book' which lists many North American Barnard names. I will miss him because he was only too willing to help me when I needed it in answering questions of our American members.
Our thoughts and sympathies go out to his family in their loss.
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I apologise for the delay in updating the web page over the last little while. As I think I have previously mentioned I had to obtain a new computer when my old one gave up the ghost with the loss of all my programs.
The new one has the Windows 7 operating system which meant that some of my original programs would not work and others gave intermittent problems.
I am still in the process of reinstalling some of the programs and upgrading others to newer versions.
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I received a request for information from South Africa in the last couple of days from a lady who has some uncles who might be willing to be tested. I am particularly interested because there is a possibility that in the past some of relatives ended up there.
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For our DNA project we use the DNA testing company DNA HERITAGE, but if any Barnard males who have used a different testing company would like to contact us, we would appreciate the chance of comparing their test results with the results of the members of our project, because after all we are all interested in finding links.
We cannot help any more prospective members who may find difficulty in raising the full fee for Y-DNA testing at the moment because our fund is now in the doldrums. (See link on left). Any contributions would be most appreciated, as would enquiries from prospective members sharing the Barnard (or variants) surname.
Our group including the two members of FTDNA is now 24 strong and we hope for continuing growth as the additional genealogical research tool of DNA testing becomes more and more popular and more people learn of the increased chances of finding as yet unknown cousins sharing a common ancestor.
Even within our group of twenty four, twelve have verified new links or suspected links.
How about joining us?
Please email our Webmaster if you are interested or need additional information.