Harvey

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Harvey is an English given name, surname, place-name, derived from a Breton personal name meaning "battle-worthy". It is thought to have come to England with the Breton mercenaries of William the Conqueror as "Hervé". As a given name, the diminutive Harry is sometimes used.

William Harvey, English physician and Enlightenment figure is in an E-M34 male line according to Bill Harvey, the administrator of the Harvey DNA project. This can be cross checked easily as follows:

Although he died without issue, the patrilineal descent of William Harvey's great great grandfather Humphrey is traced to Zachariah Harvey b. 1711 in the USA in Oscar Jewell Harvey's "The Harvey Book" published WILKESBARRE, PA. in 1899. This Zachariah also corresponds to the LDS pedigree for AFN:4W5N-FH. Zachariah is noted in the lineage confirmed by the Sorenson foundation's geneticists and genealogists, with the following haplotype:

DYS393 DYS390 DYS19 DYS391 DYS385 DYS426 DYS388 DYS439 DYS389I
1323131116-1711121114
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