The Bayers-Seaholm ancestral families have emerged from three distinct geographical regions and  quite a few religious denominations:
 The following map shows both the locations of the main branches of our direct ancestral families as  well overlaying the geographical ranges as determined by the Bayers DNA sample analyzed by  Ancestry.com:
  
 The Swedish component: 
 	Originating in the southernmost province of Skåne, the families are exclusively  of the  Swedish Lutheran denomination. Our main ancestral lineage of Sjöholm and its patronymic precursors  was, until our Great Grandfather Johan made up of workers of the earth and water, both farmers,  fishermen and foresters. Of nobler stock are both the Hamilton Clan, originally of Scotland and  emigrating to Ireland in 1604, building Monea Castle. The youngest son sailed to Sweden to fight  alongside the soldiers of Charles X Gustav, who granted him a baronetcy in 1648. His ancestor  married into the Sjöholm family in the late Nineteenth century. The other noble family is the De  Besche family. The De Besche family, prominent metallurgical experts in Wallonia [French speaking  Belgium], were invited by Duke Karl, son of King Gustav Vasa to establish both iron mining as well  as steel blast furnaces in Sweden, making the nation the foremost exporter of high grade steel. The  family also received a Baronetcy for their efforts.

The German component:
 This is solely comprised of the Bayer family  which lived in the Duchy of Bayern [Bavaria] until  their emigration. The family was of the Roman Catholic faith, and little else is known prior to  their arrival in America.

The English components:
 The Anglo-Irish families were of the Presbyterian denomination, and included the Cox lineage, and  the Methodist denomination, which includes the Sankey family. Both lineages were originally from the  western Midlands area of England and, for one or two generations were landowners in the Ulster  Plantations, an area of Northern Ireland given over to English soldiers by Cromwell. It is believed  that the Cox family emigrated directly from Ireland while the Sankey family returned to England and  emigrated from there.
 The Quaker families originated from Northwest, Western Midlands, and Southwest England, and included  the Pyle, Bennett, Brinton and Webb families as direct ancestors, as well as the Newlin, Chads [as  in the village of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania] ,Mendenhall, Milhouse [as in cousin Richard Milhouse  Nixon] Darlington and Maris  families, who had married into the direct ancestor families. Most were  craftspeople and merchants, of both humble as well as wealthy origins. These families were mostly  composed of what is called ¨First Purchasers¨, those who purchased land directly from William Penn  and emigrated to Pennsylvania between 1682 through 1699. They all settled in Chester County [modern  Delaware and Chester Counties].
 3.  The Anglican families, members of the Church of England. The Reynolds family is the sole  Anglican family, emigrating to New England in 1630, the Jamestown Colony in 1622, and our branch,  emigrating to Lancaster County Pennsylvania in about 1685 as well as Burlington, New Jersey in 1676.   All the above English, German and Irish lineages eventually migrated to Western Pennsylvania in the  late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Swedish ancestors who emigrated to America  arrived in the early 1900´s and settled in both Detroit and Philadelphia.