Hi Darryl   I love this!  I have a similar situation with one of my grandparents, who was illegitimate.  We have a 'surname clue' on the 1911 census where a different surname is listed, its not a very common name, so I am hoping one day when I have more spare cash and time to spend, that DNA testing might both help solve a family mystery and fill in a huge blank part of our family history.    Regards Sandra        >I inherit my surname from my 3x g grandmother Mary, a single mum who died in her 30s in the Pembroke Workhouse. The only lead I had to the paternity of her surviving son >James Gwynne was the "father" on his marriage certificate, a James "Meriless".  I had no evidence that the paths of Mary and James M. had even crossed but censuses etc uncovered a suspect - James Merrilees living in south Wales  at the right time, but miles from Pembroke in Whitland Abbey, but with an occupation (steward) that matched that on James Gwynne's marriage certificate. It was my luck that the Scottish Merrilees clan were conducting a world wide Y chromosome study and my Y DNA sequence (37 loci) was a near perfect match for other extant Merrilees males, thus confirming my hypothesis beyond any reasonable doubt that Merrilees had inseminated my 3x great grandmother. Cheers Darryl ------------------------------------------------- Darryl Gwynne Glen Williams, Canada -------------------------------------------------- > Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ================================ Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message