Nancy Elder-Petersen

My name is  Nancy Elder-Petersen  and I started this site.E-mail:  NancyElderPeterSEN@yahoo.comI am a volunteer Host of the ELDER Surname DNA project at FamilyTreeDNA of Houston, Texas.See:http://www.familytreedna.com/public/ElderandElder One-Name Study in UK, posted by Nancy Elder Petersenhttp://www.one-name.org/profiles/elder.html We hope to find our ELDER family origins in Scotland.We welcome any male worldwide with the surname ELDER to participate in our  Y-Chromosome DNA project, ordering the "mouth swab" kit and lab report by FamilyTreeDNA.If you are a female researcher with a close male relative stillcarrying the surname ELDER  we encourage you to request their participation. The goal of the ELDER Surname Project is to distinguish between  ELDER ancestral lines, worldwide, and connect lines that have reached brick walls  on their paper trail, especially to connect to their Scotland origins. SUMMARY:ELDER DNA kits are now divided into at least 6 separate groups by their DNA matches, plus others that don't match any ELDER group. My brother's Y-DNA kit is #10042 in "FRANKLIN CO PA" group. 1. FRANKLIN CO PA group: 26 matching entries    Includes known descendants      of "ROBERT ELDER d. 1807 FRANKLIN CO PA."    Also includes 5 descendants of      "GEORGE ELDER, d. 1800 Bedford Co PA,"    and one known descendant of       "DAVID ELDER and MARGERY STEWART" - FRANKLIN CO PA.    (Those 3 Rev. War Soldiers could be brothers.) Others matching:     JAMES ELDER SR. of Clarion Co PA     JOHN ELDER, Mercer Co PA     JOHN ELDER, Beaver Co PA     JAMES AND JOHN ELDER of RANDOLPH CO NC     ANDREW R. ELDER- March 15,1795 -July 1854 in Alexander County, NC     JOHN ELDER, res. Iredell Co NC 1800     SAMUEL ELDER, Sevier Co TN     JACOB ELDER d. 1818 Lincoln Co KY     JOHN ELDER, b. abt 1814 NC     JAMES ELDER, d. 1991 WI **** 2. GLASGOW group: 5 Newly traced Descendants from Scotland. (Not matching other ELDER lines) **** 3. MAINE ELDER group (4 entries): #23005 A. SAMUEL TYNG ELDER (matches 12/12, 35/37, 64/67 with England) b. 1784 Portland, Cumberland, ME, d. 1829 Moss Point, Jackson Co., MS #20923 B. ANDREW ELDER d. 1807 Madison Co., KY #87786 C. ALEXANDER ELDER,b. 1796, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England #100589 D. GEORGE ELDER (b. 1811 E. Anstruther, Fife - d. Ontario, Canada) JOHN ELDER (b. 1769 Crail, Fife) may be related to JOHN ELDER, b. 1806 Crail, Fife - immigr. NJ/CT **** 4. PAXTANG PA: 8 entries ANCESTOR and RELATIVE: A."ROBERT ELDER, b. 1679 Scotland-- d. PAXTANG PA" (3 entries) [his son "Rev. John ELDER of PAXTANG"] [Excellent Descendant's paper trail with DNA to match this very different "I = VIKING HAPLOGROUP"] B."Robert Scott ELDER" --his ELDER family still lives in ELDERS RIDGE PA--they have an ELDER family BIBLE to prove he is the 10th ROBERT in the PAXTANG line. C. JOHN ELDER of BALLYMONEY, Co. ANTRIM, Northern Ireland (2) D. ROBERT ELDER of Inch Island, Co. Donegal, Ireland E. Robert H. ELDER, b. abt 1828 Indiana Co PA                    d. 1892 Dallas County Iowa F. William Hoyt Elder, b. 1867, Spartanburg, SC matches 66/67-- STEWART #5830, 36246, etc. **** 5. PETER ELDER of VA group: 8 entries Excellent paper trails for these matching entries. (Lee ELDER book) **** 6. WILLIAM ELDER (Catholic of Frederick Co MD): 7 entries Excellent paper trail for 4 of these matching entries. Other ELDER researchers have known CATHOLIC paper trails. 7. More Different ELDER DNA in file which doesn't match any ELDER, some of them in Scotland! ***** My research notes for ELDER families in PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nancyelder/ed/Perth.htmalso:ABERDEEN,  ARGYLL,  INVERNESS-SHIRE,  ISLE OF SKYE, SUTHERLAND, FIFE, KINROSS (and Glasgow Steamships), MIDLOTHIAN, BANFF-SHIRE, 
LANARK, RENFREW (Paisley and Elderslie), SELKIRK (BORDERS), FORFAR and ANGUS - (Lochee/Dundee) 
at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nancyelder/ed/BlueFunnel.htm