Discover!

Some of you will already know that all those who tested BigY will have been assigned their specific branch on the tree of mankind. Which branch is automatically updated as more tests are done and new branches created.  BigY is the test that keeps on giving.

The recent Discover tool introduced by FamilyTreeDNA gives you information on your individual branch, along with a Time tree.

More recently FTDNA have also now provided the time tree information for a whole project, here's the Fairbairn project group time tree, a selection from which, for the Scottish Borders Fairbairn families is shown below.

yDNA branch snapshots over time can be found on the Guild of One Name Studies Fairbairn project webpages here.
The December 2022 snapshot of the different branches now tested, has been annotated with both the Discover timeframes at both the 95 and 68% certainty levels, and with the earliest known genealogy within the group (ie not necessarily the common ancestor for all in the branch).

You can select which branches to display by the project subgrouping assigned by the project admin.

The bulk of the Fairbairn BigY testers can be found under haplogroup I-BY21384 

The earliest known ancestor shown on each branch here, is that the tester has entered on their test under their profile > Account Settings > Genealogy > Earliest Known Ancestors
Please check that you have completed this section - DO NOT GUESS. The key word here is known.
This information is also that shown on your public results on the y DNA results page.

If a padlock appears on the Discover group tree, the tester has chosen not to make their results public.
Check your settings under profile > Account Settings > Privacy and Sharing. 
The recommended settings are Y-DNA match level > All Levels and 
Match Preference summary to select all to be shared.
You can chose NOT to be notified of the smaller matches under Notification preferences.

There may be subsidised yDNA testing available for selected Fairbairn lines.
Contact the Fairbairn Surname DNA project administrator with the details of the direct male line concerned to enquire.
We recommend starting at y37 to test the water first and if results are as expected, do recommend saving the pennies, pooling funds with family members, and testing BigY to both contribute to your and science's knowledge of connections.

Wanted: Cockburnspath Fairbairn line tester(s)

Most of the links below take you to WikiTree - all help in documenting descendants welcome.

It is a free, collaborative tree, great privacy controls for the living, and very DNA friendly.
Whatever test you have taken, IF you are comfortable being in an online tree, connected to your ancestors, then join WikiTree, input enough of your family to connect up to any already there, and show what DNA tests you have taken. 
Regardless of any DNA tests, why not help the Fairbairn project by expanding your line down at least a little bit towards present day?

One of the goals for the Fairbairn DNA project for this year  (2023) is to further clarify the DNA groups for the Cockburnspath line down from George Fairbairn (married Christian Bookles).

Our sole yDNA tested representative for this line is a descendant of James Fairbairn b. 1793 (married Jean Anderson) and son of John (married Grizel Johnston).
Here's the list of yDNA descendants for John currently on WikiTree - quite a gap down to present day and a mere drop in the ocean of the actual descendants!

The Fairbairn Surname DNA project is currently looking for direct male line descendants down from any of James' brothers to validate the DNA signature back as far as John for starters. 

- David b. 1787 (married Alison Anderson) 

- Walter b. 1802

are currently the only two descendants connected to John on WikiTree.

You can help.
The project has a y37 DNA test available for a suitable candidate, with the possibility of an upgrade should the results be as hoped.
Contact the Fairbairn Surname DNA project administrator with the details of the direct male line concerned to enquire. 

Look forward to hearing from you.

BigY result updates

Do keep an eye on the Guild of One Name Studies Histories section where snapshots of revisions to the yDNA BigY DNA grouping results are posted every so often, the latest being as at Dec 2022.

We are gradually increasing our knowledge of which lines are more closely related.

Any Fairbairn who has DNA tested is welcome to join the FamilyTreeDNA Fairbairn Surname Project.
You can upload your test from Ancestry, MyHeritage, 23andme into FamilyTreeDNA for free. There is a small one-off free to unlock the additional tools beyond the match lists and contact info, such as FamilyMatching to split your matches by "side", the chromosome browser ++.

If you are a direct male line descendant, please use the contact details for the project to ask the admin (me, Lorna) whether or not your line is already represented with a yDNA test, or needs another to confirm the DNA signature. Subsidies may exist, depending on the answer to this!

Start at y37 to get a toe in the water and see who all pops up as matches.

Enjoy the journey

Looking like we are Fairbairns, not Elliotts after all????

The Fairbairn Surname DNA project is gradually plugging away at upgrading different lines of the Haplogroup I1 Fairbairns and their matches to BigY.
One of the benefits of this, especially when the resulting files are added to yFull.com, is that  timescale estimates are added to the branches being created on the yDNA tree of mankind.

A snapshot of the resulting tree as at Nov 2018 is on the Guild of One Name Study Histories pages
copied here:

Our Fairbairn (& matching Elliott) sub branch of I-Y7277 is
I-Y32666/ which as of Nov 2018 yFull estimated was formed 3800-2300 years before present, average 3000 (where "present" is 1950). The Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) is estimated as 600 ybp (average of 900-325 ybp).
Underneath that branch we now have one branch without close matches on the known sub branches.

Then come two main sub branches:

• one estimated to have formed 600 ybp (average of 900-325 ybp), with a MRCA of 225 ybp 
• one estimated to have formed 550 ybp (average of 900-225 ybp), also with a MRCA of 225 ybp

The former has two of our matching Elliot kits in it
The latter has two separate branches of our Fairbairns, namely the Cockburnspath, Berwickshire branch and that of John Fairbairn/Bessie Flint who married abt 1725 in Melrose, Roxburghshire

So, with the earlier generic branch being a Fairbairn, it does look like these Elliotts sprang from a Fairbairn around 1400, or 1725, depending on whether you use the branch formation or the MRCA date.

It's sale time again at FamilyTreeDNA until the end of December, so an excellent time to get more branches represented by BigY testing (hint hint)
 
Some background reading from Roberta Estes DNA-explained blog as to Why the Big Y
 

Those dratted 404 Page Notfound messages

Apologies for an increased number of 404 page not found messages both from links on this blog and any lying around the web pointing to what used to be the Lineages sub-section of my One Name Study pages.
The latter site has been rationalised to move the old Analysis section into the Histories section of the Guild of One Name Studies Fairbairn pages and shift the old Lineages sub-section up a level in the site hierarchy of my ONS pages.
To find the current page, remove the /lineages
 portion of the URL to jump to where it is now.
Any I can influence will gradually be corrected.

Are we Fairbairn or Elliott?

Donations are currently being called for to add to our knowledge of when the matching set of Fairbairn and Elliott results diverged on the yDNA tree of mankind - somewhere down from I-Z140 which branch formed about 4,100 years before present (ybp - present being 1950)
https://yfull.com/tree/I-Z140/

Summary:
We now know that a sub group of the I1 haplogroup matching Fairbairns (lineage 1e) form their own little sub branch at I-Y32666, Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) estimated to be about 225 ybp
https://yfull.com/tree/I-Y32666/
and that at least one of the group of matches between all the Fairbairn and Elliotts has confirmed as I-Y7277 - MRCA 3,100 ybp
https://yfull.com/tree/I-Y7277/

Donations for the BigY test are most welcome.
We have a willing participant from the Elliotts once the money is raised -  $525 US is called for.
If sufficient is raised we can extend that to either, or both, she says optimistically, of another ELLIOTT or the FAIRBAIRN waiting in the wings who also likely fits somewhere between I-Z140 and I-Y32666.

We anticipate awaiting another BigY sale before ordering, so please contribute to the General Fund for the Fairbairn/Fairburn project at
https://www.familytreedna.com/group-general-fund-contribution.aspx?g=Fairburn
marking in the note any specific focus for your donation if desired.

Update for I1 Haplogroup FAIRBAIRNs

With one of the recent BigY sales at FamilyTreeDNA, the opportunity was taken to test four of the Lineage 1e FAIRBAIRNs, and analyse their results at yFull.com.

The latest version (5.04) of the yFull tree now shows that this has resulted in the creation of a new branch of the tree underneath I-Y7277 (which was estimated by yFull as having been formed 3400 ybp TMRCA 3100 ybp) which is where they are currently shown on FTDNA.

The new branch is I-Y32666, with an estimated formation date of 3100 ybp but a TMRCA (time to most recent common ancestor) of 225 ybp, ie 1725.

The DNASurnames Haplogroup tree which shows yDNA tree branches, along with line patriarchs and tested participants (if approved to do so, has been updated (http://dnasurnames.info/dchaplogroupi.htm#a20)

We believe, from papertrails, ySTR testing and a bit of "a miracle happens here" for one or two of the links, that all four tested descend from John FAIRBAIRN and Bessie FLINT whose children were baptized at Melrose, Roxburghshire from  1729 to 1740, and one at Smailholm in 1741.

So how much earlier were all the branches for the matching I1 Fairbairns formed?

That will take an interested party, or two, from any of other groups at
to also test BigY and analyse the results at yFull.
Any takers?

DNA Sales

Check out the overall DNASurnames blog for full details of the FamilyTreeDNA sale prices for DNA Day, and a link to sales at other sites.

Of particular interest for the Fairbairn Surname DNA project are those for
FamilyFinder - $20 off to $59 US
BigY down to $425US
SNP Packs down to $89
yDNA 37 to $129
yDNA 67 to $209

Please check with your project admin before rushing off into SNP Pack testing to ensure that you are purchasing a relevant pack for your haplogroup.
And if you are going to test BigY at some stage, save your pennies rather than duplicate your testing by also doing a SNP pack.

FYI we now have 4 BigY test results in the FAIRBAIRN project, all currently determined to be I-Y7277, and awaiting further analysis at YFull.com to see if there's any new sub branches to be found.
It would be good to see how the ELLIOT sub group in the project compare!

Inventive indexing

Been a while since I posted an entry in this category:
Margaret Fair Caren, appears in the 1871 census for Selkirk in the Ancestry transcriptions.
She is Margaret FAIRBAIRN nee WATERS, (deserted) wife of Angus FAIRBAIRN Vocalist of the previous post, living with her parents at Newark Cottages.

Angus FAIRBAIRN, Vocalist

Tried to post this to the RootsWeb Fairbairn Message board but it wouldn't post, and sent it to the Mailing list, more out of curiousity to see whether or not either/both were still operating given the ups and downs of RootsWeb over the last few months ( or longer).

The below investigation was prompted by a posting on the Facebook Fairbairn Family group about Angus Fairbairn the Eminent Scottish Vocalist, performing in Barrie, Ontario

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Can anyone prove, or disprove, my theory that Angus FAIRBAIRN, of the "Fairbairn Family of Scottish Vocalists" performing in Boston by 1878 is actually James Angus FAIRBAIRN son of Thomas FAIRBAIRN and Catherine ANGUS?

Evidence for the prosecution:

• James Angus is shown as "Vocalist" on the 1852 bap. entry for son James George b. Newark, Selkirk;
• 1851 census shows James (railway signalman) and wife Margaret with a dtr Jessie b. 1849 (Moncrieff Tunnell, Forteviot Perthshire).
  Which Jessie is not with Margaret in 1861
• That 1861 census shows Margaret as married, FAIRBAIRN, with her parents (WATERS) and with her three sons, but no husband, at  Newark Cottages, Selkirk. 
• This 1849 Jessie fits the age and birthplace of the Jessie dtr of Angus in 1861 with Angus and "wife" Mary Fairbairn in Greenwich, Kent
  Which census shows:
  FAIRBAIRN (indexed as FAIRBURN): Angus 36 scottish vocalist b. SCT; wife Mary 28  b. Middlesex; Sister-in-law Elizabeth ROBERTS wid. 36 Professor of Music b. Middlesex; Children: Jessie  12 b. SCT; Elizth 4 b. Middlesex; Mary A 2 b. Kent; Niece: Maria ROBERTS 7 b. Devonshire
  I believe Mary and Elizabeth are nee BENNETT but cannot find a marriage between Angus FAIRBAIRN and Mary BENNETT.

Throw in:

• James Angus birth/bap. entry at Kirknewton is dated 15 Apr 1823 - about the right day, right month as shown on the 
• death cert. of Angus FAIRBAIRN Vocalist, in Massachusetts (cert. #4622 for 30 Jun 1887 shows Angus F FAIRBAIRN as 65y 2 m 16 days, male, marr., died/ resid. 10 Humphrey Sq, b. SCT to Thomas and Catharine, both b. SCT; Buried Forest Hills)

What's a year between genealogists?
Particularly when data for Angus ranges from 1822 (dth cert)  to 1825 (1861) to 1830 (1880)

• An 1887 death also explains actual wife Margaret changing from "married" but with no husband in the 1881 census, to widowed in the 1891 census.

Convinced?

Anyone with any sign of James Angus beyond the birth of son James George in Newark, Selkirk  in 1852?

Update:
An obituary was subsequently found that tied Angus Fairbairn the Scottish Vocalist dying 1887 in Dorchester, Massachusetts to his coming from "about Galashiels" which has fully convinced me that James Angus last seen at Newark, Selkirkshire is one and the same person as Angus.

The obit is rather damning as to his abilities however.

Small steps...

As mentioned in the last post it would be good if the Fairbairn Project could determine when the matching Haplogroup I1 lines diverged.
Perhaps we're all ancient ELLIOTs after all?
Do remember that the ELLIOTs in the FAIRBAIRN project are a very very small subset of the overall ELLIOT project.

Three BigY tests were ordered during the recent sales, all in Lineage 1e and believed to be descended from John & Bessie (FLINT) FAIRBAIRN (who married about 1728 Melrose, Roxburghshire).

There are hints that the first is nearly completed processing as a couple of BigY match emails have been received, even though the dashboard for the kit (F-16) shows "awaiting results".

Although the Haplogroup on his dashboard hasn't yet been changed from I-M253, his Haplotree/SNPs does however now show he is positive for
> Z141 > FGC22406 > Y7277
which YFull.com has at:
https://www.yfull.com/tree/I-Y7277/
a branch it shows in v5.01 of their I1 tree as forming 3300 ybp, TMRCA 2200 ybp (years before present, "present" = 1950).

Intriguing that the only three countries listed against those already analyzed are TSI, Italy and Hungary - but then the most youthful listed subbranch has a TMRCA (time to most recent common ancestor) estimated at 1500 ybp (ie around 450AD) so quite a way back from 1728.

We had already assumed the Z141 level from the prior SNP testing of our I1 group guinea-pig (F-17) who had tested positive for Z141 - so that branch was assumed to apply to all in the group.
He was also negative for two of the then known downstream sub groups of: F2642 and Z2535.
At which time specific SNP testing had ended.
No SNP packs or BigY were available at that time - how fast things change in this world.

Hopefully with this, and the remaining two results, once all analyzed at YFull, may create a more recent FAIRBAIRN sub branch.

For any of those in the I1 matching groups of the FAIRBAIRN project, be they FAIRBAIRNs, ELLIOTs or FARRIS or ... , FTDNA do offer both an I1-Z140 SNP pack which would quickly position any of the matching I1 group on the tree under I1-Z140 without the expense of the BigY test, but also without the contribution to science BigY gives.

This SNP pack includes the above FGC22406 sub branch, along with four successive branches.
and individual SNP tests for around this area.

So the more adventurous of you may wish to gamble by simply checking if you too are FGC22406 by ordering an individual SNP.

If you are considering doing BigY in the future - wait, save your pennies and do just that, both of the above would be superfluous.

If you do wish to explore this area of DNA testing please check with either your I1 Haplogroup project or the Fairbairn project administrator before ordering to make sure you are getting an appropriate test for your individual situation.

When did lines diverge?

With the current FamilyTreeDNA sale, the opportunity has been taken to kick start more of an investigation into when assorted lines diverged:

• The Elliots and the Fairbairns who so closely match at yDNA STR testing (the 37/67/111 marker tests)
• Lineage 1e from the others in haplogroup I1

just for starters (yes I'm biased, my FAIRBAIRN branch is Lineage 1e).

The test used here is BigY (currently $50 off on sale with further $$ off vouchers arriving weekly that may apply - I've heard some were for $100 off, the most I've found were $75).

It is only available if the male concerned has already tested his yDNA, so isn't visible on the normal product page (https://www.familytreedna.com/y-dna-compare.aspx). No re-scrape necessary if sufficient DNA remains in storage.

This test runs hand in hand with SNP testing, and has an advantage over any SNP packs that FTDNA advertise in that for the latter you are playing catch up all the time as the tree advances, and have to keep re-testing to see if you match the newfound branch.

For BigY you are helping science as well as your curiousity by leading that charge down the tree to the present day.  As new branches are found, your results are automatically updated, at least on YFull.com who do further analysis of the results for a one-off fee.

From prior individual SNP testing before BigY became available we know that the guinea pig tester for the FAIRBAIRNs, and by implication the group, had made it down to I-Z141 - which is equivalent to the I-Z140 one of the ELLIOT kits has tested for - https://yfull.com/tree/I-Z140/ - formed 4,300 years before present (present = 1950).

We must be able to do better than that.
One group down from the I-Z140 link above has a Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor of 50 years, yes that's 50 !

As for all DNA testing, it cannot be done in isolation, it needs comparisons.

Any takers from the ELLIOTs?

From other groupings in the I1 lineages?

We do need at least one other BigY test within the group to compare against to get full value from this.

A new set of vouchers will be arriving soon, so if interested, check out the FAIRBAIRN project activity feed to see if any are available.

As an example of what can happen, take a look at the Runciman project diary where we were trying to determine how long ago the four matching lines diverged. Question not yet answered, as they were still on the same branch estimated at around 550 ybp. We have hopes that another test will revise that further.

 

Fairbairn atDNA comparisons

The Fairbairn atDNA page has been updated to include more analysis of how much detectable dna has survived between assorted lines.
At this stage it only includes descendants of John & Bessie (FLINT) FAIRBAIRN, but other lines can be included.
Perhaps you've hit some particularly interesting comparisons across lines only known to be distantly yDNA connected via the FAIRBAIRN line?
As it says on the page, all it takes for that to happen is to let me know the GEDMatch ids of the kits concerned.
Or better still:
- run the (free) Multiple Kit Analysis and the 3D chromosome browser tools GEDMatch provides for the kit numbers concerned,
- save each result as a complete web page and
- send me either a link to the pages on eg Dropbox, or the zipped up pages.
You may care to also provide your own labels for the kits listed, rather than use the kit names.

The grid of total shared cMs below is now attached to John FAIRBAIRN's page on WikiTree as well.

Triangulations of the segments involved is not yet complete to check, if possible, that they are indeed Fairbairn/Flint DNA.

Fairbairn/Elliot/Irwin conundrum

Has anyone advanced their research on finding where the little cluster of ELLIOT and IRWIN close DNA matches to the haplogroup I FAIRBAIRNs comes from?
Some of the known information is documented/linked to on the supplementary project pages, http://dnasurnames.info/spFAIRBAIRNLineages.htm
where there's a page about the ELLIOT(T) matches.
As  each DNA project at FamilyTreeDNA now has the capability for a message group for that project, why not check it out and add your theories/thoughts/research to the thread on this conundrum there.
Pool your knowledge, never know what you'll learn.
https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/fairbairn/activity-feed
You have to be logged in to your kit to post/view the activity feed.

atDNA comes up trumps

Another set of FamilyFinder results in from the family of Robert FAIRBAIRN in Richmond Ontario  by about 1829 (married Kate SCOTT who is reputed to have died at sea en route to Canada abt 1828).
And yes, more matches between the families of Archibald and Alison (CROSSER) FAIRBAIRN, and with the prior test participant, and also to the more distant 7th cousins, descendants of Robert & Agnes (LANDRETH) FAIRBAIRN.
We look to have proven the theory of where Robert belongs - a previously unknown son of Archibald and Alison.

The DNA Lineage pages have all been refreshed, and in particular the Fairbairn FamilyFinder page as been updated to include an updated chromosome map of segments of dna shared by descendants of John and Bessie (FLINT) FAIRBAIRN who married in Melrose, Roxburghshire around 1726.

Click to enlarge

There's an intriguing side effect to our increased number of FamilyFinder tests.
We now have matches between descendants of Archibald and Alison (CROSSER) FAIRBAIRN and descendants of Robert and Elizabeth (CROSBIE) FAIRBAIRN.
yDNA indicates that although these families are indeed connected, their common ancestor was well  back into the 1600s, which makes it seem unlikely that the link is their respective FAIRBAIRNs.
More work needed.

2015 - sale - FFinder "find"

If you want a great kickstart to the year, I have some remaining coupon codes for further $$ off the current sale prices for anyone interested.
The coupons range from $5 or $10 off any test (which could be used to transfer ancestry tests to FTDNA and unlock all your matches) through $5 or $10 off FamilyFinder , Y-DNA 37/67/111, mtDNAFull Sequence to  $100 off BigY.
Sale and coupons expire midnight 31st December Houston time.



It would be a great time for anyone with FAIRBAIRN ancestry to consider FamilyFinder tests, a very useful tool in our genealogy toolkit.
The more tests we have, the more data, and the easier it gets to divide your matches into specific lines and pinpoint the common ancestors.

FamilyFinder has turned up trumps for me and looks to have given us hope to finally prove a theory about the family of Archibald & Alison (CROSSER) FAIRBAIRN, namely that the Robert FAIRBAIRN living in Canada by about 1827/8 and living in Richmond, Ontario 1850s is indeed their son.
We never have managed to find/convince a direct male line FAIRBAIRN to test Y-DNA to prove this, but live in hope.
But we do now have a triangulated match on chromosome 5 between myself (Lorna), GD (F-29) a descendant of David son of Archibald and Alison, and a descendant of Robert's granddaughter Mary Catherine KELLAR nee FAIRBAIRN via his son William.

Looking good to start the new year.

As 2014 draws to a close, I wish you all a great 2015, with many thanks to all of our FAIRBAIRN project participants who have helped with some fascinating discoveries since the project began.

The original question that led to the creation of the project was helped immensely with our very first kit and match - the ancestry of Archibald FAIRBAIRN (married Alison CROSSER).

My second question, also specific to my family, was to prove John FAIRBAIRN in New York by 1840, father known to be a Walter, was the son of my Walter.
That took some time to prove, but was eventually proven both by Y-DNA matches and shortly thereafter with a missing piece of the papertrail.

The more generic question was the inter-relatedness of the Scottish Borders FAIRBAIRNs in particular, but FAIRBAIRNs in general.
That has led to some surprises, thanks to all of those contributing their Y-DNA.
Several paper trails turned out to need revision, but in the main, the bulk of those tested, do indeed relate to each other, belonging to haplogroup I1, with the earliest tree, and modal value for that haplogroup being the Cockburnspath FAIRBAIRN ancestral lines.

Perhaps in 2015 we could add a few more lines from further afield into the project - Yorkshire FAIRBURN in particular.

Check out the sale prices

Becoming curious about your origins?
Check out the FamilyTreeDNA Discounts going until 31st December.

Before jumping in and ordering a Y-DNA test, do however check to see whether or not your FAIRBAIRN line is already represented by a direct line male as there is little point in close relatives (say 1st to 3rd) both testing y_DNA.
Distant cousins, yes as that adds confirmation to the derived dna "signature" for the patriarch of the line.

However, ALL people are encouraged to test FamilyFinder to add to their and our knowledge of their overall genetic makeup.

I have several coupon codes available for further discounts off the sale prices should anyone be interested.

Direct male line FAIRBAIRNs from the families listed on our Wanted! page are particularly welcome.

New Y-DNA37 matches

The notifications over the last couple of days from FamilyTreeDNA for Y_DNA37 matches to many of our project members are from two new tested people who have tested Y-DNA37.

Neither are currently in the FAIRBAIRN project, neither are surnamed FAIRBAIRN or a variant thereof, both are shown as Genetic Distances of 3 or 4, at least to the kits checked.

One however may be adding to our group of matching ELLIOTs, where his ancestor is stated as being from Letterkenny Ireland (1836). An upgrade to Y-DNA67 would be in order to see how this match holds out over more markers.

Still Z141

We have not yet managed to find which sub-branch of the I Haplogroup tree that the Lineage 1 FAIRBAIRNs belong to.
Our SNP test for F2642 came back negative.
Comparing the ISOGG haplogroup I tree and that on FamilyTreeDNA for our SNP testing guineapig, John (F-17), we appear to not have that many options left.
Patience called for to reach much more forward to present day down this branch.

Continuing to explore the Y-SNP tree of mankind

With the current DNA Day/Arbor day sale at FamilyTree DNA we are taking the opportunity to try and find the next step down towards the present on the I1 haplogroup tree.

You may recall that our selected representative, John F-17, had advanced the matching group of FAIRBAIRNs down the I1 tree to Z141+ (was then I1a2a1a but appears now to be I1d...) but was negative for Z2535, one of the next branches on the tree.
We've selected F2642 as the next to test for.

The sale is also 20% off on Y-DNA37 tests, so any direct male line FAIRBAIRN would be most welcome to join the project to see which family they most closely relate too, or provide a new slant on a new group.
Any Yorkshire FAIRBURNs out there?

Check out the Wanted! page for lineages we particularly would like to hear from.

Remember that although Y-DNA testing is the most effective way to confirm that line A matches line B, those of us that aren't direct male line FAIRBAIRNs can still contribute to this giant genetic jigsaw by using autosomal testing - FamilyFinder with FamilyTreeDNA or the Ancestry DNA test (and later transferring results to FamilyTree DNA to get the best of both worlds).