Thanks so much for creating the Lynam website. My name is James Linam, and I have been trying to find a link between my South Carolina Linam’s and their English homeland for 50 years now. I have focused on Derbyshire because of the many Lynams, but without any real evidence of a link. I joined DerbysGen a couple of years ago and narrowly missed contacting Valerie Jones. An Irish DNA authority checked my DNA and concluded that my genetic “homeland" was within 10 miles of Belper. This weekend, Ancestry.com <http://ancestry.com/> allowed open access to their UK files, and I have spent several hours looking at the Lynams in Derbyshire. There seem to be two centers in the 18th century: N. Wingfield and Duffield. Christian names are, for the most part, very similar to my family. However, I’m not looking for Quakers, and I know that some Derbyshire Quakers went to Philadelphia and the Delaware valley. My oldest ancestor in America was George Linam, born about 1746 (place unknown) and died in 1815. He owned a plantation in the upcountry (highlands) of South Carolina and was, thus, a slaveholder - anathema to the Quakers. If there are Lynams remaining in Derbyshire (including your wife), who may have any insight into Linam emigrants to the American colonies in the 1740s, I would very much like to correspond with them. Also, I have done some fairly extensive y-chromosome testing through FamilyTreeDNA and have a minority haplogroup: I-1a1b. The subclades are Nordic and suggest Viking, Norman or Anglo-Saxon ancestors. But that’s all much earlier than the link I’m looking for. Once again, thanks for the website. Best regards, Jim Linam