HARRIS Surname DNA Project

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The HARRIS Surname DNA Project, one of the larger DNA surname projects with over 200 participants, was created in 2003 as a cooperative organization to develop a collection of Harris family groups who descend from various male Harris ancestors. Some variant spellings of Harris include: Harries, Herries, Harriss, Harrys, Herrys, etc. The Harris surname is English and Welsh (very common in southern England and South Wales) as a patronymic from the medieval English personal name Harry (pet form of Henry), meaning "son of Harry."

The official testing company for the Harris DNA Study is Family Tree DNA. Harris Surname DNA Project administrators serve in a volunteer capacity and receive no financial or other compensation.

According to mongabay.com, the HARRIS surname ranks as the 15th most common surname in the U.S. as surveyed in the 1990 Census (behind Smith, Johnson, Williams, Jones, Brown, Davis, Miller, Wilson, Moore, Taylor, Anderson, Thomas, Jackson, and White).


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[edit] Y chromosome (Y-DNA) testing

DNA - acronymn for deoxyribonucleic acid - is the chemical inside the nucleus of all cells that carries the genetic instructions for making living organisms. SNP - (pronounced SNIP) - is an acronym for single nucleotide polymorphism. A SNP test confirms your haplogroup by determining if a SNP has mutated from its derived or ancestral state.

DNA analysis of the Y chromosome, carried exclusively by males, provides a tool for identifying participants who share a common male ancestor. When used in conjunction with documented Harris pedigrees, these tests can also aid in establishing links between Harris groups which previously were thought to be unrelated. They also can be used to disprove connections based on tradition and proximity of individuals, when in actuality the individuals or families are not related.

Because many Harris surname researchers have exhausted traditional genealogy research methods without identifying their elusive Harris ancestor, this project combines genetics and genealogy in an effort to break through the proverbial "brick wall."

[edit] Y-DNA test results

A Harris Y-DNA Results chart showing brief lineages and SNPs or DNA marker values for various kits submitted to the Harris Surname DNA Project is divided up into groups of DNA donor kits which appear to be related. Each grouping shows a modal value with the kits in each group matching closely with the modal (or proposed DNA values for a possible common ancestor). Other kits are still unmatched. On the chart, haplogroups in green have been confirmed by SNP testing. Haplogroups in red have been predicted by Family Tree DNA based on unambiguous results in the individual's personal page. SNPs are changes to a single nucleotide in a DNA sequence. SNPs or DNA markers are named with a letter code and a number. DNA markers shown in red are known to mutate faster than other markers.

A HARRIS-DNA mailing list is sponsored by RootsWeb®. A few of the kit groupings have corresponding YahooGroups for discussion of topics related to that particular Harris DNA group or its reported ancestor(s).

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Arquit, Nora C. Harris. Before My Own Time and Since: Genealogy of the Harris family, 1513-1978, Their Allied Families, with Historical Sketches and Illustrations of the Places They Lived and Worked in Europe and America. Ithaca, NY: the author, 1978.

Baker, William Thompson. The Baker Family of England and of Central Virginia--Their Many Related Families and Kin. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers Inc., 1974. [Contains much information on the Harris and Smythe families in Virginia and back in England which intermarried with this Baker family.]

Boddie, John Bennett. “Descendants of Edward Gurgany, Member of First General Assembly, 1619.” Southside Virginia Families. Vol. II. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1966. pp. 128-132.

Boddie, John Bennett. “Explanation of the Harris Chart.” Virginia Historical Genealogies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1965. pp. 198-200ff.

Boddie, John Bennett. “Harris of Charles City and Isle of Wight Counties.” Historical Southern Families, Vol. 4. Redwood City, CA: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1960. pp. 193-220.

Boddie, John Bennett. “Harris of Essex, England.” Historical Southern Families. Vol. IV. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968. pp. 190-192.

Boddie, John Bennett. “Overton-Harris-Day.” Southside Virginia Families. Vol. II. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1966. pp. 341-349.

Brayton, John Anderson. The Five Thomas Harrises of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Winston-Salem, NC: the author, 1995.

Clagett, Brice McAdoo. “The Will of Thomas Harris of Creeksea, County Essex.” The Virginia Genealogist 38 (1994):129-130.

A genealogy of the Descendants of Nicholas Harris, M.D., Fifth in Descent from Thomas Harris of Providence, R.I., and Sketches of the Harris and the Following Families Connected by Marriage, Tew, Hopkins, Smith, Arnold, Tibbits, Waterman, Olney, Williams, Carmichael, Canfield, Willoughby, Treat, and Fowler, compiled by Mrs. Thomas H. Ham. [Albany, N.Y.: C.I.F. Ham, 1904]

Gettys, Robert C. Harris and Smith families of Edwards and Richland Counties of Illinois. N.p.: Gettys, c1986.

Harris, Joseph W. Record of the Harris Family Descended From John Harris Born 1680 in Wiltshire, England. Philadelphia: Press of George F. Lasher, 1903.

Harris, Malcolm Hart. “Major Robert Harris ... Was He Real or a Myth?” The Virginia Genealogist. 25:3 (1981):191-203.

Harris, Malcolm Hart. “Three William Harrises in Hanover County.” The Virginia Genealogist 22 (1978):3-15, 99-104, 187-193.

Harris, Robert E. From Essex, England to the Sunny Southern U.S.A. Tucker, GA: the author, 1994.

Harris, Thomas. A Genealogy of the Descendants of Nicholas Harris, M.D., Fifth in Descent from Thomas Harris of Providence, R.I.. Privately printed, 1904.

Harris, W. Lee, et al. Captain Thomas Harris, 1586 to 1658, English Immigrant in 1611. Privately published, 1966.

Harris, William Samuel. The Harris family: Thomas Harris, in Ipswich, Mass., in 1636 and Some of his Descendants, Through Seven Generations, to 1883. Nashua, NH: Printed for the author by Barker & Bean, 1883.

Keifer, Sarah Jane Harris. Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the New Jersey Branch of the Harris Family, in the United States. Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Co., 1888.

Key, Marie Harris. The Edward Harris Family: Its Lineage and Traditions. Corpus Christi, TX: Privately published, 1963. [Traces the family of Edward Harris, a grandson of Capt. Thomas Harris.]

MacRae, Eleanor Harris. The Harris Famly of Prince Edward County, Virginia. Virginia Beach, VA: Family Values Publications [1991].

Seaver, J. Motgomery. Harris Family History. Philadelphia, PA: American Historical Genealogical Society, [1929]. [Has information on various Harris families in the U.S., Harris coats of arms, and on Harrises famous in history.]

Smith, Claiborne T. Jr., “Sergeant John Harris of Charles City County, Virginia: A Reappraisal.” The Virginia Genealogist 37 (1993):18-28.

Stevens, Richard E. Snow Hill Remembered: A History of the Harris Family of Maryland, Ohio, and Kentucky. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1994.

Stubbs, June A. Our English Ancestry of Chichele-Chiche-Judde-Smythe. Columbia, MO: Privately published, n.d. [Includes information on the ancestry of Alice Smythe in England, the wife of Sir William Harris of Creeksea, Essex County, England.]

Taylor, William R. “Evidence of Descent of William4 Harris of Goochland County, Va. and His Father William3 Harris of Henrico, New Kent, Hanover and Louisa Cos., Va. From Maj. William2 Harris, Son of Capt. Thomas1 Harris of Jamestown.” The Virginia Genealogist 22:4 (1978):261-270.

Wiggins, Kathryn, compiler. The Harris Papers: A Genealogical Notebook. v. Camarillo, CA: the author, 1968- . [Includes 26 genealogical notebooks on the Harris family with abstracts of deeds and deed indexes, will books, and court orders.]

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