Hello, This morning on the "Netscape home page / News" is an article on the "millions of descendants of "Niall of the Nine Hostages." Residents of NY / USA are found to descend from him ! And, I would suspect some from MA / USA would descend from him ! http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=hp-tos-feat-h-02&idq=/ff/story/0002%2F20060117%2F1036496424.htm&sc=romta DNA testing by universities and other research facilities sure are "finding" lots of interesting information ! One comment made is that we are the first generation in the world where "POWER" does not equate with "many progenity." Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)