This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AUI.2ACIB/234.1.1 Message Board Post: I forgot to mention that some Chamberlain/lin researchers believe there is somehow a connection with the family of Capt. Gad Chamberlin, an early settler who lived in the area of Romeo, Macomb Co., MI (buried there), and who also came from this same general area of New York State (see 1820 Census in Lima, Ontario Co., NY). I am closely related to this family (through both my Chamberlin and my Parker-Baldwin lines), so I have a particular interest in continuing to trace its descendants, more distant cousins, etc., though its ancestry is well known and documented. Just yesterday, I was corresponding with someone who is helping me trace the descendants of several of Gad's children who went to Louisiana. So, this is by way of letting you and other researchers know that I'm also working intensively on this other family. I see no relationship, as yet, with Melancton and Beekman Chamberlin. I probably should have said, in my prior posting, with regard to early Ontario Co., NY Chamberlain/lins, that Joshua, Pierce, Isaac and David are descendants of William(1) Chamberlain, whereas Hines/Hinds, Loomis (in Livonia, Ontario Co., NY in 1810 & 1820), Gad (in Lima in 1820), etc., are descendants of Henry(1) Chamberlin. Henry(1) and William(1) are known to be completely unrelated, both by historical records, and through DNA testing of descendants. I should also have mentioned that I would like to discuss DNA testing with known descendants of Beekman and Melancton Chamberlin.