Since 1978 the Association has traced Harmers from every walk of life from across the globe. What follows is the shape of that work: the three distinct family lines we have identified, what twenty years of DNA testing has proved about them and how to reach the records themselves.
Records come from all over the world, contributed over five decades by members sharing resources, expertise and family photographs.
Outside of the archive available on this site, the HFA has been building and maintaining a lineage database of Harmers that now has over 58,850 historic records in it.
Everything above is free to read. Access to the research material — the database of 56,850 individuals, the certificate collection, the published family trees and the full DNA reports — is reserved for members of the Association.
If you hold documents, photographs or a tree for your own line — or you have spotted something in the database that is wrong — we would be glad to hear from you. Most of what is here arrived exactly that way.