Hi Barbara: Thanks for your message that I have copied below. The pricing varies somewhat with the company you choose to do the DNA work. You can use Goggle to bring them up on the Internet. Apparently, the Family Tree DNA organization has a lead in DNA genealogical database development. They have a higher pricing for individual family lines that have not yet qualified for a group rate (6 or more persons from same family name for group rate). But they give a significant discount rate for groups. This is the reason I am trying to find six CLOUD's to start a DNA analysis group. I think I mentioned in an earlier message, that the base group rate is $100.00 for a 12 marker analysis and $169.00 for a 25 marker analysis. The maximum is 37 markers and I do not recall the rate off hand. The more markers, the further you can go back in matching a family line. There are also other types of related genealogical data that costs more, much more. You will also need to have a male member of your family line take the test, since females do not carry the y-DNA markers. Hope this helps answer the question you raised. Please let me know if you decide to have a male member of you Cloud line take the DNA test. Tom King, Sr., Sterling, VA. ------------------------- X-Message: #3 (copy from Cloud BB) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 19:32:32 -0600 From: "Barbara Clark" <C2Ranches@msn.com> To: CLOUD-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <BAY11-DAV108nULdiup0000fa09@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [CLOUD] Re: CLOUD-D Digest V04 #46 RE DNA Testing Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would also be interested depending on cost. I am also from the Indiana, Michigan, and North Dakota Clouds. Barbara C2Ranches C2Ranches@msn.com