So, Don Stone is allegedly a 5th cousin, twice removed, of Sir Winston Churchill. Good Show... DSH "A vaincre sans peril, on triomphe sans gloire." -- Pierre Corneille [1606-1684] "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King, Jr. "Don Stone via" wrote in message news:mailman.1.1465757605.18605.gen-medieval@rootsweb.com... Colin, An excellent story showing the payoff for persistent, systematic work, utilizing all available tools. In my case, Y-chromosome DNA testing came after I had worked out my patrilineal pedigree. The pedigree has one link in New England for which I could find strong circumstantial evidence but no direct proof (http://donstonetech.com/StoneFamily/slides/JosStoneInBartlett.html, http://donstonetech.com/StoneFamily/slides/JosStoneInv3.html). The Y-DNA match (35/37 STR) with a well-documented descendant of the Massachusetts immigrant Gregory Stone supports (but doesn't prove, of course) the pedigree I worked out; he would be a 9th cousin. A number of earlier genealogists had tried to connect my ancestor Joseph Stone of Connecticut with the family of the brothers John and William Stone, immigrants to Guilford, Connecticut. (Traces of this still appear on the Web.) However, the Stones of Guilford are Y-DNA haplogroup R1b1a1a2 (R-M269), whereas I am Y-DNA haplogroup I1a3 (I-Z63). The latest presentation of my patrilineal ancestry and Y-DNA is at http://donstonetech.com/StoneChart. This version has some information about paleoclimatology, cultural developments, etc., to make it more interesting. For me the DNA testing was a catalyst for expanding my horizons backward in time. For example, I had previously mostly ignored information about ice ages, but now that I have some idea where my patrilineal ancestors were living during the Last Glacial Maximum, I have considerable interest in what their lives were probably like. -- Don Stone On 6/12/2016 6:22 AM, Colin Withers via wrote: > After facing a brick wall in my own family's genealogy for nearly 30 > years, the wall finally came down 10 years ago. Here is the link to the > article I wrote then on the Yorksgen group, and thankfully archived by > rootsweb: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/YORKSGEN/2006-08/1156683092 > Wibs