1. The results of each participant's DNA analysis is provided in the Results Table below.
2. The paternal descent of each sample provider is given in the link in the results table. Click the associated link to open a new page which will show this descent. The new page that loads will also give the participant's e-mail address. Use your browser's 'back' button to return to this page.
3. For every new DNA "type" identified, a new "Node" is created. These "Nodes" are identified by letter on the left-hand side of the Results Table, and near the yellow, circular nodes in the Network Diagram.
4. The BONNER Network Diagram shows the genetic relationship among all the participants.
5. Given the participant's "node" and known paternal descent, we can deduce the "node" of the participant's patriarch (i.e., his father's father's (etc.) father).
6. Each BONNER patriarch, and all his male-line descendants (and patrilinear ancestors) comprise a "clan" of particular DNA type, or Node. The Patriarch's Table, below, associates all nodes with their clans, where known.
7. By DNA-testing a male-line descendant of your BONNER patriarch, you can directly determine if it is possible that he is genetically related to any of the other "clans" thus far identified.
8. Clans with the same Node (i.e., the same DNA) are related, whereas Clans with different Nodes are unlikely to be related.
9. With enough samples, most or all clans should be identified.
10. The Group Administrator is happy to answer any questions you may have about the project.

How to read the data table and network diagram

As an example, DNA 'types' "D" and "E" are separated by 3 mutations. The question then becomes, "how closely related are groups "D" and "E"?". Well, mutations are rare events. I will spare you the math (e-mail me if you are really interested in this), but suffice it to say that the point where two cousins are likely to have ONE mutation between them is approximately at the 8th cousin level. The point at which two groups are more than 50% likely to have 3 or more mutations between them is about the 35th cousin level (or a common ancestor approximately 1,000 years ago). Since the surname BONNER is not known to have existed 1,000 years ago, these two groups are more likely to have acquired the surname BONNER independently than to have acquired the BONNER surname by virtue of shared descent from the same man surnamed BONNER.

But remember that these are statistical measures. This does not mean that they could not have shared descent - it is just that it is not LIKELY. In a way similar to a man being seven feet tall - it is not impossible, it is just rare. Rare events DO happen, and there are cases where multiple mutations DO appear between close cousins. If another sample were provided which "split the difference" between "D" and "E", then it would appear to make a shared descent between "D" and "E" more likely. On the other hand, the separation between "A" and "B" is so great (10 mutations) that (virtually) no amount of new samples will be able to show a common descent among those two groups.

This project is young, and more samples will continue to pour in, and the analysis will become more and more clear. Please help us with this project by participating and/or locating appropriate individuals for testing. DNA analysis is a valuable and powerful way to uncover linkages within, between, and among sample groups - but its power is made even moreso with greater sample numbers. Please help :)

Node	Samples	Patriarch
A	1	BONNER, James Born: Abt. 1819, County Donegal, Ireland Married: circa 1845, ? Spouse: Frances McDevitt/McDavid Died: 8 April 1902, Philadelphia, PA
A	1	BONNER, Richard Joseph Born: Abt. 1859, Philadelphia, PA Married: 07 SEP 1887, St. Patrick's Church, Elizabeth, NJ Spouse: Catherine F. Sullivan Died: 15 FEB 1919, Carteret, Middlesex, NJ
B	7605 7710	BONNER, William Born: Abt. 1778, Prince George County, Virginia Married: 27 APR 1809, Hancock County, Georgia Spouse: Nancy Chappell Died: 28 MAY 1852 in Wehadkee Creek, Troup County, Georgia Note: See 1850 Census, Troup County, Georgia, District 735, Page 98B, HH#572/93
B	63744	BONNER, Henry Born: Abt. 1724, ? Married: Abt. 1755 Spouse: Anne "Nancy" Cate Died: 01 Jan 1822, Warren County, Georgia.
B	7605	BONNER, James H. Born: 16 Oct 1816, Commissioner's Creek, Jones County, Georgia Married: 21 Aug 1834, Troup County, Georgia Spouse: Jane Connelly Died: About 1879, < Randolph County, Alabama > Note: See 1860 Census, Randolph County, Alabama, Southern Division, handwritten page 226, Page 852, HH#1578/1578
B	7710	BONNER, John William Fletcher Emmett DeLafayette Born: 11 Feb 1823, Forsythe, Monroe County, Georgia Married: 22 Dec 1857, Heard County, Georgia Spouse: Margery Anne Stewart Died: 29 Sep 1896, Standing Rock, Chambers, Alabama Note: See 1850 Census, Troup County, Georgia, District 735, Page 98B, HH#572/93
B	10858	BONNER, John Born: About 1724, Surry County, Virginia Married: About 1747, Surry County, Virginia Spouse: Sarah Hicks Died: About 1804, Virginia
B	7605 7710	BONNER, William Born: Abt. 1730, ? Married: ?, ?; 6 DEC 1767, ? Spouse: Honore [--?--], Sylvia WILLIAMSON Died: Abt. 1812, Prince George County, Virginia
C	2	BONNER, Benjamin Born: 04 FEB 1749/50, Amelia County, Virginia Married: 25 FEB 1770, Amelia County, Virginia Spouse: Frances Dempsey Died: 29 JUL 1814 in Spartanburg District, South Carolina
C	1	BONNER, Thomas Trotter Born: Abt. 1815, North Carolina Married: 30 Sep 1834, Marengo County, Alabama Spouse: Elizabeth H. Shackelford Died: AFT. 1860, Phillips County, Arkansas
C	2	BONNER, Henry Born: Circa 1650, England Married: Circa 1670, <North Carolina> Spouse: possibly Katherine [--?--] Died: 1716, Chowan County, North Carolina
C	1	BONNER, Henry Born: Circa 1670, Albemarle County, North Carolina Married: Circa 1700, North Carolina Spouse: unknown Married: 01 APR 1705, Perquimans County, North Carolina Spouse: Deborah Whedbee Died: 07 OCT 1738, Chowan County, North Carolina
C	1	BONNER, William Born: Bef. 1683, Shaftesbury Precinct, Albemarle County, North Carolina Married: Bef. 1714, North Carolina Spouse: Jane [--?--] Died: Aft. 31 MAR 1724, Chowan County, North Carolina
C	2	BONNER, Thomas Born: circa 1744, Chowan County, North Carolina. Spouse: Margaret Jones. Died: 30 December 1804, Doves Creek, Georgia.
C	1	BONNER, Jordan Born: About 12 DEC 1768, Granville County, North Carolina Married: About 1796, ? Spouse: Rachel Moon Married: ?, ? Spouse: Mary Martin Married: 03 OCT 1811, ? Spouse: Mary Adams Died: 8 MAY 1841 in Washington, Alabama
C	1	BONNER, Whitmal Born: circa 1775, North Carolina. Spouse: Alice "Allie" Selman Died: circa 1821, Jasper County, Georgia.
D	1	BONNER, Matthew Born: About 1799, Ohio Married: Circa 1835, ? Spouse: Ann Roberts Died: After 1850, < Clark County, Ohio > Note: See 1850 Census, Clark County, Ohio, Harmony Township (District No. 210), Page 22B, HH#303/315 (lines 27-35, inclusive)
D	1	BONER, Joseph William Born: 11 Nov 1747, Pennsylvania Married: May 1771, North Carolina Spouse: Margaret Elrod Died: 13 Aug 1785, Hope, Forsyth County, North Carolina Note: Sometimes seen as Joseph William BONNER
E	1	BONNER, John Born: About 1835, Donegal[?], Ireland Married: Circa 1860, aboard immigrant ship Spouse: Penelope "Mabby" Galagher Died: After 1910, Ellenton, South Carolina [?]
F	1	BONNER, Michael (father of the John P. Bonner who married Celia Kirkman) Ireland to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
G	1	BONNER, Benjamin B. Born: About 1844, Ohio Married: abt. 1873 Spouse: Margaret (Scott?) Died: After 1880 Note: Benjamin's parents were born in England (see 1880 Census, Cook County, Illinois (Portland Avenue, Chicago), Enumeration District 36, handwritten page 24, Page 461B, HH#116/222)
H/Q	1	BONNER, James Born: Abt. 1753, Ireland Married: ?, ? Spouse: Mary LAIRD Died: 01 NOV 1825, Monroe, Alabama
I	1	BONNER, Garfield Born: Supposedly in North Carolina Married: Spouse: Celie Mizzell Died: Alabama
J	1	BONAR, William Born: Abt. 1720, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Married: circa 1745 Spouse: Julie Elizabeth GORRELL Died: 07 FEB 1778, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
K1	1	BONER, Michael Born: circa 1830 (probably Ireland) father of John Bonner (14 May 1863 - 25 Mar 1930)
K1	1	BONNER, Seamus Born: circa 1830, Cloghercor, Glenties Parish, Donegal, Ireland.
K2	1	BONNER (Boner), Thomas Born: circa 1820, <County Fermanagh>, Ireland. Married: 15 April 1844 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Spouse: Anne Kilcourse.
M	1	BONNER, William Born: Abt. 1783, Augusta County, Virginia. Married: 11 Nov 1802, in Randolph County, Virginia. Spouse: Jemima CARR Died: 13 DEC 1857, Black Fork, Tucker County, Virginia.
N	1	BONNER, George Born: 22 Jan 1823, Lerkin, County Moughan, Ireland. Married: Margaret Edmunston, 23 Oct 1849, Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland. Died: 05 May 1905, Midway, Wasatch County, Utah. Ancestral File: 17JF-4M
R	1	BONNER, Newton Born: circa 1821, North Carolina or Kentucky. Married: Elizabeth Smith Julian, ABT. 1843.
S	1	BONNER, Thomas Born: circa 1800, <Islington, London, England>.

Please note that "participation", in this case, means the following:

1. Being a male with the surname "Bonner" (or spelling variant thereof). [Exceptions include cases of adoption, etc. Sample providers MUST be male and should be (or at least suspect that they are) the son of a son of a son (etc.) of someone surnamed "Bonner" (or a spelling variant thereof).]
2. Joining the project (viz., "Officially" joining, by using the link below).
3. Ordering the test kit from FamilyTreeDNA
4. Taking the sample
5. Mailing in the sample
6. Paying FamilyTreeDNA the $99 (more if you request more extensive tests).
[I have no vested interest in using FamilyTreeDNA. You can use any company you like. I recommend FTDNA because I have used them in the past with satisfactory results, and also because using a single lab makes the data analysis less complicated. If you are interested in participating, but for some reason want to use another lab, then please e-mail me (address below).]

Join the BONNER Surname DNA Project:

...once you have filled out the form, etc., the project head will contact you by e-mail with some basic questions that are of an administrative nature.

You need not "participate" in the project in order to have access to the resultant data and analysis. The data and analysis will always be here, on this page, and also posted to various lists, boards, and forums from time to time. However, if you are male and have (or suspect you have) BONNER (or spelling variant thereof) male-line heritage, then we strongly urge you to participate in our Project.