FYI, the seven articles written by Phil Harris in 2001are now completely refuted by him. At the time this proposed lineage of Robert Harris was suggested, there was no DNA testing of direct male Harris descendants. However in the past 15 years there have been scores of direct male Harris descendants of both Maj Robert Harris and this William Harris that have had their yDNA tested at Family Tree DNA. Their test results show that the marker values for the descendants of Robert Harris and the descendants of William Harris do not match indicating that they were not related. Furthermore, the haplogroup of Robert Harris of R1b1 does not match the haplogroup of William Harris of I1a1, proving conclusively that they had no common direct male Harris ancestor within thousands of years, back to pre-recorded history when these haplogroups were formed in different parts of the world. At the time Phil wrote these articles he did not believe that the wife of Maj Robert Harris was a Mary Claiborne Rice but has lately changed his mind on that too. Phil never intended for these articles to be published as they were posted on a private mailing list and were automatically copyrighted to him as his intellectual property under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. TMK, no one has ever researched each of the generations back from Robert Harris d1701 to this William Harris of Southminster to prove each generation is correct. Some have claimed this lineage is correct but have never shown any direct documentary evidence. DNA has already proven this lineage is impossible.
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