Yep, same for me. Had a major brick wall on my mother's great grandfather. I spent twenty years researching for some documentation to bring down that wall to no avail. But the Y-DNA test done on my uncles before the last ones passed away (Bless them) allowed us to hopscotch back two generations and connect into what has to be our line. Got a perfect match on 37 markers - on the same surname and county of birth. And I was lucky enough to connect to a line with a dedicated researcher who has taken the family back to the 17th C. Definitely worth every penny to me and then some. -----Original Message----- From: bp2000-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bp2000-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nelda Percival Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 6:49 PM To: bp2000@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BP2000] WHY DNA test Hi, I wanna tell a story - Being I admin the Gilpin Ydna project my examples are with the Gilpins. Now I know, some say what's that got to do with Beattys?!! The story could be anyone, any surname.... In 1998 I started looking for my Gilpins. I had my father, Grandfather, and Great grandfather (after a lot of work) but the trail dead ended there.... This year 2011 I have finally connected to what is most likely his father through Y-dna testing. I can now spend those hundreds of hours and untold amounts of money waisted on other people's Gilpins, on my own. By tracing backwards through the DNA (perfect match) Gilpin's life I have a much better chance of finding some writen record with John G's name on it. Is testing worth it? In my humble opinion .... absolutly! I tested My brother's Y & MTDNA and my autosomal chromosomes.... and I did not waste a penny! Nelda Remember - To remove un-needed email text from your replys ********************* Visit Project website at: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bp2000/ ~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit Beatty Y-DNA Project at: http://www.beattydna.org/ ********************* Mailing List's Archives at: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/surname/b/bp2000.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BP2000-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message