Dear cousins, The dna project offers us a never before available opportunity to find new directions for our research and to find answers some of us have been seeking for decades. Please take the project seriously and encourage every male Cloud descendant you know to participate -- this includes people who aren't on this email list or who don't receive the CFA Journal (i.e. they don't know about it). (You can assure them there will be no violation of their privacy or any release of any personal information.) If we don't get enough participants, then the useful information will be limited. The more people who join, the more datapoints we'll have and the more progress we'll make in knocking down those brick walls in our research. There are now many successful surname projects, and they got that way by having a large group of participants. If you know of someone that should be sent an invitation by mail, please send their name and address to the dna project chairperson, Raymond Shirley <rshirley@icx.net>. sincerely, Tom Cloud P.S. If you are confident of your ancestry, we ESPECIALLY need you to participate. We need your information as a reference point to help those who cannot find a link to a line. The known lines will provide the necessary "standards" for everyone else, and you may well discover some new information about your own line.