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Searcy patriline
Unbroken to John Searcy of Granville Co., NC (d. 1787), and DNA-confirmed (Y-DNA I-A16735).
Browse this line →Needham — Wymondley, England
The English gentry line to a Derbyshire origin c. 1490, via the Heralds’ Visitations.
Browse this line →de Graffenried — Bern
The Swiss patriline to Peter, treasurer of Bern, in 1387.
Browse this line →Rorie
Virginia → NC → Tennessee → NE Mississippi; part of the Mississippi convergence.
Browse this line →Hubbard & Stockton (Quaker)
Through Deep River Monthly Meeting, NC — a few upper links still Probable.
Browse this line →Marlar
Chain closed from the 3rd- to 2nd-great-grandparents; actively being extended further back.
Browse this line →Daniel
Documented into early-1800s Alabama; the Barbados origin (Thomas Garner Daniel, 1675) is still speculative.
Browse this line →Mitchem–Brown (maternal DNA)
mtDNA J1c4k traced to Helen Brown (b. 1884); her mother is the current brick wall.
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