I'm doing some genalogy on my families, can anyone help?

Question:The first surname is Yarber. Family members have said that this name may be of German descent and distant family members may have been called "The Black Dutch." The other surname is Boring. I have no clues about this name at all. The last name is Whitehead. Just wondered if any other genealogist has been working on any of these 3 surnames.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The first surname is Yarber. Family members have said that this name may be of German descent and distant family members may have been called "The Black Dutch." The other surname is Boring. I have no clues about this name at all. The last name is Whitehead. Just wondered if any other genealogist has been working on any of these 3 surnames.

The origin or a surname is not all that important in genealogy. The same surname can come from more than one nationality. Also not everyone with the same surname are necessarily related or shares ancestors.

Ancestry.Com shows the following given as place of origin for Yarber immigrants to the U.S.

Germany 5

Holland 1

But they show the meaning as English -variant of the English Yarbord of Yarbrough

The 1870 census has lots of Yarbers in the Southern states

The New York passenger List 1820-1957 has 40. Ethnicities given are English, German, Russian, Coatian, Dutch,Scottish
Hebrew and French.

Boring is probably a German name and the o had an umlaut over it. That is the 2 little dots over the o. The name would sound more like Behring in English. So some of your Boring distant cousins might have changed their name to Behring in the U. S.

There are entries in family trees on Rootsweb(free site) for all 3 names. Just pull up the site and put in one of the surnames in the World Connect block. Once you peruse the trees, if you see something that interest you probe on a name and it will give you the name and email address of the submitter.

Now, you can't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is user submitted and generally not documented. You might see different information from different submitters on the same people. Then you will see the same information repeatedly from many different submitters without documentation. A lot of people copy without verifying. Use the information as clues as to where to get the documentation.

Since you are interested in surnames, be careful about surname product peddlers.
See the links below, one from the (U.S) National Genealogical Society and the other from the British College-of-Arms

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...

Type them names in ur search engine see what ya come up wiht!