Garrett van Swearingen - VAN SWEARINGEN / SWEARINGEN DNA

Hi Beth Golden

Thank you for posting. I “think” I may be from Gerrit but it’s daughter line so I wouldn’t expect DNA testing to be useful for you. I’m on GEDMatch though if you see anything (EHowton).

Do you have Geni profiles for your name changers you could post to the discussion? If the tree is elsewhere post that too. You never know.

Hello , My Mother was a Swearingen and I have had my DNA tested through ancestry.com and also have downloaded it into My Heritage. I have traced my line back to Garrett Van Swearingen.
Sorry I can't help you with your question about the Brown family, but am interested about the Swearingen Project.
regards Steven Harris

Hi Erica Howton Thanks for your thanks :) I just ran a one to many on gedmatch for my older brother's kit and don't see you listed. But still need to compare with my own kit and my younger brother.

I have 2 online trees: ancestry.com (Brown-Turney Family) but set to Private to stop data-mining and another at wikitree (Brown-18795), but it's not complete, as is my tree here on geni. Fortunately, most of these other surnames are also connected to other ancestors and I've been able to add information to my tree on them. My atDNA is also on ancestry.com with username gramssearch. My brothers' yDNA is on FTDNA with kit #s 450862 and 450870. Also Gedmatch: me A626169, William T705694, and Benjamin T920026.

I hope that you're able to prove your connection to Gerrit's daughter soon! Eventually, we hope to include/display both at and mt DNA in the Swearingen WF project.

every good wish!

Hi Private User. Thanks for responding! Unfortunately, the WF Swearingen Project is only set-up at this time for yDNA, BUT it is hoped to eventually include at and mt DNA. In the meantime, you can view the project in case it helps your research here: https://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/swearingen I'll save your info and let you know when the main admin has set-up the project so that you can join.

I'd like to see if your DNA matches mine at ancestry.com. My user name there is gramssearch. Would you let me know what yours is? Thanks!

every good wish!

Hi Erica Howton and Private User,
The WorldFamilies project is still working on being able to fully include the atDNA results. In the meantime, if you'd like to explore our possible connections, please let me know. My atDNA has been tested and is on ancestry.com and my 2 brothers' yDNA is on FTDNA, plus all 3 of us are on Gedmatch. And, I've done quite a bit of paper trail research trying to find the details on when my Brown family was actually a Swearingen. I always enjoy collaboration! Hope to hear from you soon.

Hi Beth,

I checked Gedmatch and had low cM matches as follows,

T705694

Chr
5. 126,168,249. - 132,510,417 3.8 cM. 1060 SNP
12. 107,155,177. - 111,746,048. 3.9. cM. 829. SNP
20. 31,842,393. - 36,951,966. 3.7 cM. 848. SNP

T920026

6. 20,598,407. - 23,322,209. 4.6 cM. 812. SNP

For your kit. A626169. I get an error message saying kit not found.

Forgot to mention that I have a direct male line down from Garrett to my father, but he had three daughters including me.

Susan Cannon Thanks so much for running a Gedmatch comparison! I'm sorry that I wrote my kit# incorrectly! It is A627169. (I'll correct my original post). With the variance in inheriting atDNA, the low #s aren't surprising. ... at least they're there :)

Hope that you'd like to collaborate further. I *think* that my Swearingen ancestor will connect to Samuel (1692 SMC).

My Gedmatch Kit# correction A627169 [can't edit original post]

Hi Beth,

I re-ran the comparison. Here is what it showed:

Chr
4. 30,792,943. - 34,702,672. 3.3 cM. 525. SNP
20. 31,842,393. - 36,951,966. 3.7 cM. 852. SNP

My line is:

Garret................ Barbara
Thomas............. Jane
Van.................... Elizabeth Walker
John.................. Catherine Stull
John................... Jane (Jenny) Barkley
Marmaduke.........Mary Stratton
William................ Elmira Prentice
James Curtis........Mary Clark
Henry Malcolm.....Sarah (Sally) Cooley
Luther...................Mary Povlin
Raymond..............Lorene Cole
Me

Don’t know if there is any connection for you, but Marmaduke listed above has a brother Daniel who was married to Lydia Peters. They had a son John Barkley Swearingen who married Jane Brown.

Good Luck!

Forgot to add my Gedmatch number is A243504

Susan Cannon Thanks so much! Leaving no stone unturned, could you tell me dates/locations for John B. Swearingen and Jane Brown, please?

Also, in my research I find the Stull family has a possible connection to my Brown family. So far, the connection hasn't led to finding my Swearingen ancestry, but just in case you have further information, here is what I've found:

Adam Stull signed a petition to form a new state in about 1780 in the area of Fayette, Washington & Greene Co PA and Ohio & Monongalia Co VA along with several Brown, Swearingen, Moore (2nd ggm's maiden name, wife of Richard Gibson Brown), Gibson (2nd ggf's middle name), and Snowden (Richard Snowden Kirkland [1705 MD – 1772 SC] m. Mary Brown). Kirkland is one of the yDNA surname matches.

Isaac Stull Swearingen b. 1809 Fayette, PA and d. 1888 Geneseo, Whiteside, IL. C.Y. atDNA match likely cousin through other lines as well; about 5th cousins. Whiteside County, IL is about 50 miles north of Rock Island, where my Brown family lived about 1840 - 1860.

Henry Stull in 1834 owned land in Rock Island, IL adjacent to Joseph Brown and Jacob Coleman (my 3rd ggf). Rock Island is where my 2nd ggf, Richard Gibson Brown, married Rebecca Moore in 1844.

Thanks for providing your Gedmatch # for all of your help, and best wishes.

every good wish

@ Beth Golden I sent a message to your inbox

thanks, Susan!