In a message dated 6/13/2008 12:00:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wcooper@cot.net writes: Sorry Ben, All I have is a wonderful picture from Bushmills Distillery, County Antrim with two "coopers" standing in front of a large stack of barrels, presumedly about to be filled with Irish Whiskey, ("uísce beatha" in Irish). One of them is about to place a hoop on the barrel in front of him while the other stands by with a special cooper's hammer, at the ready. When I was at the Jameson Distillery, Bow Street, Dublin, I discovered the Pub was called, "Cooper's Rest." Will Cooper re cooper / barrel makers and real origiantion of the most cooper's names the ongoing inaccurate assumptions in this study should be address my guesitmate is that of the approx 150 or so coopers who did this dna testing 75 % of them are scot descendants and those have absolutely NOTHING to do with the wrong assumption that their name is from cooper / barrel makers.... they come from the scot town of cupar and their name evolved over time into cupar / coupar / couper / cooper etc willy g man **************Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102)