Announcing the birth of the first CUBAN Genealogy DNA Project! Patronymic naming systems only started being adopted after a certain point in time. This may lead to people with different surnames having matches because their common ancestor lived in the same village. For some groups it may have happened at a quite remote time, but for others it may be fairly recent - going back to only a few hundreds of years. Therefore, geographical based projects may be of great help in furthering one's genealogy not only as a way to help enhance the family's history beyond the people's connection, going into the geographical aspects of it, and at the same time giving additional clues in situations of limited paper trail. A Geographical Project in essence traces members of families that come from the same region, independent of being males or females. You can get more information, or join this project by visiting www.ftdna.com after Jan 1, 2005. The service is dedicated to helping genealogists find lost relatives when the paper trail ends and the brick wall takes its place. A painless cheek scraping to obtain DNA that can help accurately determine a relationship with either a 99.9% probability of YES or a 100% certainly that no near term relationship existed. Pricing information is available on the web site. I hope you will join me in establishing a sound database. Your results should also demonstrate what part of the world your "clan" originated in, which may be very interesting to those who are sure they are pure Spanish! Martha Moreira Yunis Use the link below to join the project and purchase your DNA test. http://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.asp?code=L87495