This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TZ.2ADE/4860.2 Message Board Post: Dick: For upwards of 20 years or more, a group of people have been researching the Nichols of Fairfield County Connecticut. This group has expended a tremendous amount of time, and energy and -likely dollars to establish their individual -and collective- 'pedigrees. Over the last several years, certainly since 1999, several members of this group have been quite active on the net, helping various folks make their OWN connections to this figure -"Francis Nichols of Stratford" In the process, I think it can be said, that hundreds if not thousands of folks, have crafted pedigrees for themselves which lead back to Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut. Something new has happened. In the last 6-9 months three men in this group, men with very clear 'pedigrees' to Francis of Stratford, have had their DNA tested. The results are in: None of the three men could possibly be genetically related to each other for THOUSANDS of years. THOUSANDS of years. They could not POSSIBLY descend from ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL for thousands of years, let alone some specific Francis Nichols, who is sometimes documented as living in Stratford,Ct c1639-1659. To the best of my knowledge, not one member of that group has EVER made a public statement to that effect, EVER. So, here we have on the one hand, o apparently knowledgable people giving detailed information about people's connection to Francis of Stratford. o on the other hand nobody seems willing to acknowledge that DNA PROVES BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT that three of these 'Francis Nichols descendants' COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE RELATED TO EACH OTHER at all, let alone descend from one man named Francis Nichols.