I would like to bring to your attention a new project which has grown out of the Johnston/es in Poldean group. We are now working with Ian McClumpha in Scotland to extend the family trees of Johnston/e in Poldean and those kin proven via Y-DNA tests. To the best of my knowledge this is the first, large-scale, research project of this kind to use both Y-DNA results and documentation together. It is being done on a lesser scale with some family trees, but not of a scope such as this. For those of you who have a proven Y-DNA link and/or have a documented connection to one of our current Y-DNA Cousins we extend an invitation to join us on our Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JohnstonsInPoldean/?yguid=331961882 If you are uncertain and would like to have a male Johnston/e in your family take a Y-DNA test, we use and recommend FTDNA - it simplifies understanding genetic relationships if we are all testing for the same Y-DNA markers. Here is their link: http://www.familytreedna.com/ Our Johnston/e in Poldean, Y-DNA signature is very distinctive. If you have had your Y-DNA tested and are not sure if you belong to our family you should check your first 4 allele values. If they are 15, 23, 15, 10 or 14, 23, 15, 10 then you are kin J, and we would love to hear from you. If you have the surnames Johnson, Johnston, or Johnstone in your family and are uncertain of a Poldean connection here are a few clues that may help you. The given names of Christopher, Francis and George (to a lesser extent) are uncommon in most Johnson, Johnston & Johnston/e family trees, but they are quite common in Poldean and Poldean-kin lines. George occurs less commonly in our Poldean lines, but when found with Francis and/or Christopher the connection becomes highly probable. The following link will take you to a section of an Ordnance map which shows the relative locations of Moffatt, the Devil's Beef Tub, Poldean, etc.: http://www.pbase.com/cjmax/image/118570565 I wish you all good hunting, Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see," >From A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay