Taaffe Family Project
I have just started a Taaffe Family Project.It is located at:http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/t/teaff/http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/t/teaff/
The purpose of this project is to:
1. Help researchers on common or related families work together to find their common heritage(See the Patriarch Page)
2. Identify the DNA of the immigrant ancestor families and and compile them and their lost branches into separate families through DNA matches.And, hopefully determine whether most, if not all, of these families are related to the Taaffes of long-ago Wales and Ireland. (See the DNA Recruitment Page)
I have successfully used this approach over the past 3 years with my Barton family.We now have well over 100 separate Barton families listed on our pages, with Line Leaders for most, who can be contacted by folks researching that family.We also have a successful DNA project which has grouped most of our families into one of 13 separate Lineages.We have had a lot of fun working and sharing together.
I hope that you will join me in making this work for the Taaffe clan, in all it variant spellings.
I have added a few links on the Home Page for Taaffe sites that I found, including the Taaffe castle in Carlingford, where my wife and I visited many years ago.(My wife's maiden name is Teaff and we have always suspected that it was originally Taaffe.)
I hope you'll join in, listing your family by earliest ancestor, sharing your family info and possibly finding someone to represent your family in the dna project.
It would be wonderful for some folks join in to help me manage this.I'll be glad to answer questions on any aspect.
Through the Barton DNA Project, I have found that my Stafford Co VA Bartons are related to the Bartons in Lancashire, where they have been landowners since the 1200s.I am hoping that we can do something similiar for my wife's family.
best regards,Terry Barton
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