Rexchase@aol.com wrote: > > Hello fellow searchers, > I have been stuck in New York in 1819 for many, many years. Today I read > an article in the NEGHS NEXUS, VOL. XV, Nos. 3 & 4, p. 94 that gave me an idea > to possibly make a breakthrough or at least get me started in the right > direction. > It seems that a company called Life Science (www.genesaver.com) is > providing vials to individuals in order to take blood samples. The > individual takes "his own blood sample which is then given to Life Science to > be processed and returned to the individual for safekeeping. The samples will > be lyophilized (freeze-dried) and stored in an inert gas in sealed containers. > These containers will then be placed in outer containers which will be sealed > and labeled. It will then be possible to check for gene-carried illnesses, > and also provide later generations with fundamental proof of family > relationships which might otherwise be impossible to prove." > In my case, if I could compare my DNA with some known Aquila/Thomas line > and with some William line, I probably will then know which line I should be > vigorously pursuing...or maybe my line is neither, in which case I could look > elsewhere. > The above website is rather interesting and I have emailed them > regarding costs. Will keep you posted. > Is anyone else stuck on their line before finding Aquila/Thomas or > William? Please give me your ideas, suggestions, comments, anything.... > Rex Gilman Chase The only problem is that it works very well is through the female line..... W. David Samuelsen