From: _GAshley923@aol.com_ (mailto:GAshley923@aol.com) Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] We have commonalties. Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:39:27 EST Gene Ashley a southern born R1B1C7 say's The mere fact you reading this shows we have commonalities I have not figured out why I have such a huge passion for genealogy My curiosity drives me .forward or is it backwards Y-DNA helped me find my living ancestors Y-chromes a Scientific trail of paternal ancestors??dead people don't provide DNA (got a shovel) Paper trails end in burned courthouses .If you are lucky enough to have southern colonial province roots most likely you have two hundred years of war torn, under educated poverty,.One generation past the outhouse and one generation into College educated decedents. My Atlantic Seaboard ancestors had money and were educated in England the revolution ended that and started a backwards trend but.the south is rising again.. Gene. **************************************