I'd be happy to participate in a group effort if a surname comes up that is prevalent in mine (the ones listed are not). One thing I have been looking at in my own data is migration paths and the clusters of people that tended to move together along those paths. I'm not sure that doesn't give me tunnel vision, though, especially where Colonial American ancestry is concerned. I'll be watching this discussion with interest! Nan Harvey On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:15 AM, John F Smeltzer <[email protected]>wrote: > > > One potential strategy would have several of us "gang up" on a surname and > see if we have similar matches. I have DISMUKES directly as at least one > match in our FTDNA files. Maybe others do as well. IF we figure out > DISMUKES by extension we MAY make progress figuring out the origins of > Chromosome 9 for the all of the others in your "In Common" collection. I > also have several MOORE connections but no ULOTH or WALTERS that I can > presently detect. So ... one potential solution would flow from a > collective group solution looking at one seemingly "doable" surname. > > > > John > > Colorado > > > >