The Bingham Family

This line of Binghams has been very difficult to trace. When I began my search, no living member of our family that I could find even knew the names of my great-great-granparents, James S. Bingham and Lavica Ann Dyches Bingham. I stumbled across the information, and was delighted to find two cousins I didn't know that I had were on the same search. We have exchanged information and, hopefully, together we can trace back even further. For now, though, James's roots remain a mystery. We do have Lavica's grandparents back in the Carolinas in the latter part of the 1700's; and I hope to get further back than that soon.

In May of 2004, I participated in the "Bingham DNA Project". This project's administrator is Linda Bingham Gardner, who has been doing Bingham family research for several years. We got a match with two other participants. An explanation of the project best comes from that site, which states "The Y-Chromosome is passed from father to son unchanged, except for a mutaton about every 500 generations. Testing the y chromosome provides a genetic finger print consisting of 12 or 25 markers. This finger print is then compared against that of other men in the Bingham Surname Project by matching the markers. By comparing the fingerprints, or markers you can determine if you are related". Family Tree DNA currently has over 800 surname projects. To see if there is one for a surname you are interested in, go to this site.