Hello Dan, The Busby name matching 12 to 12 for other names is because your line of Busbys have the Atlantic Modal Haplotype,. Simply explained you match with the largest group of European men from the time before surnames. So I don't think your forefathers fooled around a lot. <smile>. The 12/12 markers is the smallest amount of markers, which can distinguish family lines. It is surprising to have a small family name like Busby and have four seperate lines, this is probably due to families Anglicizing their names. If you upgraded to 25 markers you would cut down the number of matches, but the Atlantic Modal Haplotype is still going to be the most common group coming out of Europe and you are the perfect match. Regards, Gaila ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kay Busby" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 5:56 AM Subject: [Busbee Busby] DNA project > Yesterday I changed my privacy setings in my account. Today I got a > notification that I had a n exact match 12 0f 12. When I looked at my > account there were 116 exact matches and not one Busby. I guess this means > that my fore fathers fooled around a lot or I have lots of cousins with a > common ancestor about 48 generations or so back. > > Dan Busby > Silver City, NM