Hello Everyone: I just wanted to keep you updated on the status of the Barnett Surname project. My DNA marker results came in last week, I have posted them on the Project website. You can visit the website at http://micbarnette.bravepages.com -just scroll down to the DNA link. At present we have three people who have actually returned their test kits and several who have rquested to join but who have not actually placed their order for the test kit. The marker results for one person have come back and two more are due in a couple weeks. It will get more interesting as other some in that match one another or establish non relationships with others. The more people we have testing the more we will learn about Barnetts-period. I have added quite a few things to the website including the 1790 census for most states. I have hopes the website will be a place people can relate to and use as a reference to see how many and where various Barnetts were located. A new book has been published listing all the people on the Dawes Rolls (about 1902). There are a number of Barnetts on the Rolls. There are Barnetts listed in several of the five Civilized Tribes- Creek, Cherokee and probaly a couple more. I know about some of those who were Creek but not about the others. It would be good to document some of these lines with our project. I may list the names of the Indian Barnetts on the website one of these days in the near future when I get enough time to place them there. Anyone with a genealogical Barnett website is invited to link our to theirs and we will be hapy to place a recipocal link to theirs. There were some English Bernards who settled in Virginia about 1647 some of whom may have been called Barnett. There was also a family of Bernards who were French Huguenots who came to Goochland and Powhattan County, VA about 1699. It is possible some of them may have gone by the Barnett spelling. If anyone knows anyone of these families I would especially like to have them participate in the Barnett DNA Project. If you are a woman and can not participate in the test or if your name is not Barnett you can still sponsor one of your cousins who is a male with the surname Barnett. In fact, if there are several people intestested in a specific Barnett lineage each of several people could put some money in a kitty and collectively sponsor a male Barnette who can take the test. This way the cost of the test would be spread over several contributors and not be born by just one person. If and when there somes a time when there are distinctive surnames such as Bernard, Barnard, Burnett, Bernhardtt, etc names they can test with our group but eventually they might wish to depart out and form a group of their own. Actually, when test results are returned to the testing company, Family Tree DNA, the ersults go into the main database and they make a report giving any matching results with others in the database no matter what the name is. I think this will be very helpful in the long run. Thanks, MIC