Chapter D1- The Chamberlain’s in America Y-DNA Link to William de Tancarville. The origin of the Chamberlain surname and the study of 62 male Chamberlain Y-DNA results to find how they are related to each other on their paternal line. The study explores which of the Chamberlain families may be father to son descendants of William de Tankerville.

Chapter D2- Chromosome 9 Traced to 1600s Chamberlains. The Chamberlain Story has traced a piece of DNA on chromosome 9 back to one of the parents of Thomas, Edmond and William Chamberlain. (23&me Advanced DNA Comparisons) These three  brothers immigrated to America in the 1600s.

Chapter D3- DNA of John and the Sons of Thomas Chamberlain  On Ancestry DNA “Thrulines”, six DNA matches of Spencer Chamberlain with his uncles, Jedediah Sr and Increase Sr confirm that John Chamberlain is their brother and therefore, Spencer Chamberlain’s father. John is the son of Thomas Chamberlain and Abigail Pierce of Westmoreland, New Hampshire.

Chapter D4- African DNA on Chromosome 11 Traced to 1755 Scotland  “Where did my 0.1% sub-Saharan African DNA come from?” I traced my small fragment of western African DNA to my fifth great-grandmother, Jean Mitchell, born in 1755, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The story of how my African ancestors arrived in Scotland began centuries earlier. (This was on my maternal line)