I had two origins coming from my family "folklore". One - we were related to the presidential line and the other we were of Scots-Irish descent. I started my research about 10 years ago looking at records, message boards, etc. looking in both directions. I was getting more convinced that the presidential line and the Scots-Irish line probably were NOT conntected. My dad agreed to the DNA test and after several years of waiting, dna results are starting to be posted that may help in my search. The dna results for the paper trail to the presidential line are far from my dna results, so, I can stop my search in that direction. I have found one Adams surname 12 marker match whom I think is a real cousin and a 25 marker EXACT match with a Smith surname with a 62 percent possibility of a MRCA 100 years ago and an 84 percent 200 years ago and 94 percent 300 years ago. I have not be able to find my Thomas Adams b 1770 before 1814 when he married in Jefferson Co., OH. He is on the 1820 and 1830 Crawford Co., OH census and the 1840 census in Porter Co., IN. He died in 1843. I have names and bith dates of all his 20 children, including 9 born before his 1814 marriage. I have the first name of his first wife, Agnes, with a marriage date of Nov 26, 1791. A LDS Indvidual record lists his father as Samuel Adams b 1744 in York, PA and a LDS IGI record listing his father as Samuel Lorenzo Adams. Since, I have not been able to find any records before 1814, I don't know who his parents are or where he was born. The 12 marker Adams match has proof that her family started in th 1790s in PA. The 25 exact Smith match has proof back to 1819 in Maryland. I have been at a standstill for a couple of years. Hopefully, after more Adams' do dna testing I will find another match that will shed a little more light on who, what, where, when and why to my Adams line. Aileen Adams Brandis