Gwenn - Thanks for the email. My wife does have a living cousin who qualifies for a DNA test. He is about 85 now but has several sons. He is also a family historian. William Bowling Byers 3103 Borden Rd Austin, TX 78757-4349 He does not have email. "Bo" has written a published book on our line. All of Conrad's descendants that I have found (around Hagerstown) are not of the surname Boyers/Byers. We did have many contacts with one lady who was from Conrad's line and ours. She is now deceased. Our line has not appeared in the series of books on the Byers family. Those seem to be from the English clans. BobHop in FL Visit our home page http://bobhopkins0.tripod.com/ Hopkins File http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bobhopkins0 Byers File http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bobhopkins1 Major family names- Abel, Adams, Anders, Bellisfield, Brock, Byers, Davis, Dement, Field, Guffey, Hancock, Hockaday, Hopkins, Irvine, McClanahan, Scarbrough, Shipley, Strother, Stonestreet, Wade, Wampler, Westlake