I have recently started researching the Witt Clan of Somerset (this is my mothers side of the family. I have seem to have hit a road block with Johannes Heinrich Witt, who is his father and mother? Johann Michael Witt and Martha Christina Futterhecker or William “Guilliame” Witt-Archer and Mary Daux? Not sure where you are located but in the coming months I plan on making a trip to the Berks County Historical Society to try and locate info. Also planning to make trips to Bedford, Somerset, (Part of Somerset was Bedford County until 1795), and Allegany County, MD.
Has anymore info been found? It may be very helfpul if a male descendant takes a ydna test. I have ran my cousin's through 3 different ydna estimators, so not the actual ydna test but they all came back with the same answer, one being 96.8%, as R-L21. This is known widely as the Celtic haplogroup. It has been driving me crazy as this doesn't really fit with the Witts being German. Only 1.5% or 15 out of 885 samples came back RL-21. This concerns me as I do wonder if we may have had a non expected parental event. I have seen two sources now that one claimed Jacob Witt was from Scotland and the other, that he was the step son of Johannes Witt but not biological meaning we could possibly not actually be Witts :( Has anyone heard of this information?
I have recently started researching the Witt Clan of Somerset (this is my mothers side of the family. I have seem to have hit a road block with Johannes Heinrich Witt, who is his father and mother? Johann Michael Witt and Martha Christina Futterhecker or William “Guilliame” Witt-Archer and Mary Daux? Not sure where you are located but in the coming months I plan on making a trip to the Berks County Historical Society to try and locate info. Also planning to make trips to Bedford, Somerset, (Part of Somerset was Bedford County until 1795), and Allegany County, MD.
Has anymore info been found? It may be very helfpul if a male descendant takes a ydna test. I have ran my cousin's through 3 different ydna estimators, so not the actual ydna test but they all came back with the same answer, one being 96.8%, as R-L21. This is known widely as the Celtic haplogroup. It has been driving me crazy as this doesn't really fit with the Witts being German. Only 1.5% or 15 out of 885 samples came back RL-21. This concerns me as I do wonder if we may have had a non expected parental event. I have seen two sources now that one claimed Jacob Witt was from Scotland and the other, that he was the step son of Johannes Witt but not biological meaning we could possibly not actually be Witts :( Has anyone heard of this information?