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 Genealogies 
     Adam and Eve 
       

 

 Website - Primogenitor.com/adam.html
There are many web sites with varying information on this. Here is one of the more prolific with some documentation.
 
     Buiter
    Website - buiter.com/buiters/f_67.htm#2
1430 - Oervader Buiter and his decendants.
 
     Merrill 
    Website - Merrill.org/genealogy/early_history.html
1444 - Thomas Meryell was born 1444? in Wherstead, Suffolk, England, and died Abt. 1480 in Wherstead, Suffolk, England. He married ...... (......) Meryell Abt. 1469. He was born Aft. 1444 in Wherstead, Suffolk, England, and died Unknown in Wherstead, Suffolk, England. Will of Thomas, 1463.
 
     Murphree
   

Website - freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hisxmark/murphree/aqwg01.htm#49
1717 - The Descendants of Daniel Murphree provides a quick glance of this gentleman's descendant chart beginning about 1717.
     Murphy
   

Website - www.fortunecity.com/millenium/cslewis/280/dat23.htm#6
1670 - The Descendants of William Murphy can be found dating back before 1670.

     Pruett
    Website - Pruett.ws
1066 - The name Pruett is a venerable one which, in one form or another, has appeared in English historical chronicles many times over the centuries. The Hall of Names, Ltd. in Great Britain reports that the name Pruett (or its recognizable variations) has been found in ancient Welsh chronicles pre-dating 1066.
 
     Woodson
    Article - http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/14934404.htm
1790 - Their primogenitor, Thomas Woodson, is believed to have been born in 1790. He lived the most productive years of his life as a prosperous farmer in southern Ohio and fathered 11 children before dying in 1879.
 
     Yao
    Website - http://www.farasia.com.cn/archaeology.htm#Filiation,_Evolvement_and_Celebrities_of_Surname_YAO_
Surname YAO is one of the most ancient surnames in Chinese. Many of the eminence surnames in 100 Surname, such as CHEN, WANG, HU, SUN, YU, TIAN, YUAN, FENG and LU etc. are evolved from surname YAO..
 
     Zhu
       

 

 Website - Chinese surname history - Zhu
More than 3,000 years ago - There was one person called Yan'an among the fifth-generation descendants of Huang Di (the Yellow Emperor).
 
 



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