I don't wish to offend anyone, but I'm surprised that families of immigrants from the United Kingdom should seek DNA from just any part of the world. Surely, if you have an interest in British DNA you would be concentrating on only British donors? I understand the migrant issue, it just seems to me to be economically extravagant to ask migrant ancestry to participate. After all, isn't the purpose of finding clear lines of ancestry rather than clear lines of migration that can be found in document. Just curious. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Trail, Traill, Trale, Treyl (and other spellings) > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WeC.2ACI/1336 > > Message Board Post: > > REMINDER & INVITATION - The Trail/Traill/Treyl/Trale (etc.) Y-DNA genealogical study is ongoing! We need as many participants as possible in order to establish clear lines of descendancy and migration patterns of the family. Participants must be males with the surname Trail (or any variant spelling), because the study is based on transmission of the Y-chromosome from father to son. We are seeking men with any form of the surname, from any part of the world, especially the United States, Scotland, and Ireland. Migrations of Traills (mostly with the double-L spelling) are known in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the West Indies (Barbados, Jamaica, etc.), as well. All are welcome to join! To learn more or to join the study, go to http://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.asp?code=F60021 . If you want to join the study, please select a test of at least 25 markers -- the more markers, the better. Fewer than 25 will not yield useful results for the purposes of the study.