This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DiH.2ACEB/1719.1.1.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Jerry, Hi again. I think I may have mentioned this in an earlier posting (not sure). I got my YDNA 37 marker test results back recently (finally did it). There were two exact Carson matches that had done the 12 marker...one is upgrading to 37 to see if it still matches. These results indicate the following: My Carson line from Lancaster PA connects to the phantom Alexander Harvey Carson line of Scotland (based on one of the 2 other matches also connecting to him). That was a working theory supported by circumstantial findings but because so many Carson family trees claim his sons/grandsons as theirs, I've not tried to prove that connection. Us 3 that matched are the only Carson line so far from the I Haplogroup (I indicates a Viking/Nordic ancestor). All the others who have done the YDNA so far are from the more common R Haplogroup (western European). The results seem to reconfirm my earlier findings of my ancestor being one of the Carsons from Lancaster PA who moved together to Caswell/Orange NC (or Guilford), then moved to Washington TN in the 1780s. These Carsons were: David Carson - Sarah Woods m1753 Robert Carson - Margaret Woods m1755 William Carson - Margaret McCord m1760 Moses Carson - Elizabeth Hannah m1762 (approx) David or William are the most likely ancestor of my younger David born c1760 because I know they both had sons named David. Moses didn't, and I don't think Robert did either. A John Carson and Alexander Carson were also in Caswell/Orange earlier in the 1750s and connect circumstantially to the Lancaster bunch. I would like to see all Carson lines find a male Carson relative to do the YDNA. It seems to be worth it. Do you have a candidate to do the test? Gary