As I was pondering this morning.... Benjamin Coats of Bedford County TN was the son of Wilson Coats, who went to Polk County MO, Ben's son William went to MS if I recall correctly... Benjamin Coats of Smith County TN is a different Benjamin Coats who dies in Smith County TN, his son Jeremiah went to IL recall the Smith County TN probate or administration records.... So that leaves me to wonder if Wilson's son Benjamin also had a son named Jeremiah and he lived in MO...in which case as you recall, that DNA test did not match Rev Will's group... Just some things to ponder.... So if you have any Coats cousins, please see if they will do a DNA test for you...we have two tests that are coming back from AZ and another that has not yet reached Houston but has been ordered... Also for those of you that have DNA test results, if you put your earliest documented ancestor in the settings section of your home page at FTDNA, it will now show up in the test results page rather than your last name...this way, you have access to making changes as you find further info or if I'm not getting it correct...some folks had already done this and I added a few...those that have dates were added by the tester, so this is a real benefit to researchers... http://www.familytreedna.com/public/coats/ The above link will let you see how it looks.... Also recall that petition we had going, well....the GA State archive has changed their process for microfilm....you can now order it from them from an index they will send to you...so I've asked for the Wills index out of Jefferson County GA...seems to me Morgan Coats was in another county but this is a start...so it appears our petition was of help!! More as I find it.... Char