Hello List, I wonder how many of us have used DNA testing in our research? And with what success? I have had a positive experience and have confirmed a distant cousin in Canada and the testing suggested a more distant cousin in the United States. I have detailed my experience in my website given below, and would be interested in list comments about a conclusion I reached in that page of the site. The conclusion was: I am in no doubt that DNA testing can help in identifying relationship within a family. However, such relationship must be relatively recent -recently enough to match DNA records with written records which are meaningful in developing a family tree. Go back too far and not only do written records be non-existent, but also names can hardly be recognisable. http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~ramacs/dna_testing.htm If you are reasonably patient you may be interested in the ' KishDNA' page of that site. Regards to all. John Keynes in Adelaide, ancestry in Wiltshire. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 8427 (20130608) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

Dear John, There is a gathering of the Kingston Clan at Drimolegue in County Cork in Ireland from 23 to 28 August 2013 and as part of the gathering DNA is being tested. See kingstongathering2013 or the Kingston DNA project at www.worldfamilies.net. They also have a Facebook page - The Kingstongathering2013. I will ask the group who exhumed my great great uncle, Charles Cameron Kingston (ex Premier of SA) to pass on his DNA test results for the project. Best wishes, Richard McCarthy Sent from my iPad On 09/06/2013, at 4:36 AM, John Keynes <[email protected]> wrote: > Antivirus.