Like many of you I have spent several years researching the Beaman (Beeman, Beman, Beamon, Beamond, Beaumont, etc.) family line. This research has involved countless hours crawling through U.S. Census records at LDS Family History Libraries, pouring through on-line documents (Ancestry.com and others), as well as the hire of an occasional professional genealogist able to access document repositories too far for me to travel to. As a result I have developed what I believed to be an accurate family genealogy.
My faith in that family genealogy was recently shattered when I submitted my DNA for analysis through the Genographic Project of the National Geographic Society and joined the Beeman DNA project through Family Tree DNA. My DNA was compared with another Beaman who also had developed what was believed to be an accurate family genealogy, dating back to a common ancestor born about 1725.
The comparison proved we do not share this common ancestor; that speculation indicating all derivations of the Beaman name (Beeman, Beman, Beamon, Beamond, Beaumont, etc.) share a common ancestry is in error.
Please visit http://www.familytreedna.com/public/BEEMAN/default.aspx and consider submitting a DNA sample to help unravel our family genealogy. We are all at a point where we need science to prove/disprove our family research to date.
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