This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CI.2ADEB/9212.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Peggy, Thanks for you post. We may have some common names: Spencer and Benjamin: there are several in my male Adams line. Do you have places of birth and where they migrated to/from? My male Adams line is a member of a large pre-revolutionary Adams family from VA that mostly went south and west but some found their way north. You may be an example. Have there been any males in your Adams line who have had their DNA tested? That is how I found out I am part of this large family being researched. I was thwarted by a courthouse fire in 1878 in Arkansas, now I'm back on track because of the DNA test. Hank