It sounds like there are no more male candidates in your family for the test, so if there's no test, you can't pay for anything. Also, these tests were not available until more recently than 1993, so nobody had them back then. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Betty Rochester Date: Friday, August 25, 2006 11:54 am Subject: Re: [CHASE] DNA test To: chase@rootsweb.com > My father was the last of my Chase line that I have been able to > find. He had 2 daughters, My grandfather's brothers had no > children. My greatgrandfather had only the one son and great > great grandfather is my brick wall. Would the tests do me any > good or a waste of my money? > > Of course my father died in 1993 before we knew much about DNA > testing in genealogy. > > Thanks for your time. > Betty