Margie, I just got a Message that my DNA Test is an Exact Match of a Descendant of Ellis Campbell 1804 . Sam Campbell Margie Campbell <margecam@comcast.net> wrote: All those skeletons will start coming out now.. Even our recent ones! For me, this is exactly why genealogy is a paper trail puzzle. You can't document blood, only paper. Too many traveling salesmen, milkmen & pesky neighbors.. Not to mention brothers of the husbands..or fathers of the husbands.. Or ... Well... It was not as uncommon as we think. We have one dna that came back the other day.. NO Match anywhere! Alien... But I dropped out to two markers off..found one match. NOT a Campbell. No matter... We knew that possibility already. Don't toss the genealogy you have...if it's the way the paper trail leads, take it. It could be worse... A genealogist told a group of us once that she had her 9 year old grandson "helping" her look at films, wanted documentation for the 40+ years of work she had done (huge binder).. Kid asked, "Gramma what does d-e-c-'-d i-n-f-a-n-t mean? 40 years of research..based on a person who died as an infant! Her research went back to Scotland! She lost over 3/4 of the generations on that one question by her grandson. After tossing the whole binder in the trash can (it wouldn't fit)..she finally pulled it out and sat down to try to figure out where she went off. She figured that since she had the entire family documented..wills, etc...that the family must have had another child right after this one, or adopted a son??? Will never know I guess. Marge ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.