I would also recommend looking on Facebook and even using Google for people with your surname. I have been successful in finding people with the surname I was researching and then sending them a short message about why I am looking for people with that surname to be DNA tested. You can offer to pay for part of a test as an incentive. Keep a list of those you have contacted. Sometimes they will get back to you months later. I have also kept up correspondence with some of the people I have found, and sent them email or messages when someone new joined the surname group or was tested. In one case, it took over five years for the person to be tested, but that was the person who broke through my roadblock because he was a perfect match to my second cousin (my closest male relative with that surname), and he had a lot of information about his family history. It only takes one person if it is the right person :-) Marianne Manley Granoff Albuquerque, NM At 06:46 AM 11/18/2015 -0800, you wrote: >Does anyone have any recent successes in recruiting candidates for >yDNA/Surname testing? There are 5 of us in a "group" within a surname but >3 of us have paper trails that fall short of the probable common ancestor. >We need some New Englanders who probably feel no need to do DNA testing as >they've been in the same area for generations and all KNOW how they're >related. I'm assuming some good candidates are not genealogists or family >historians, so cannot be reached through traditional genealogical channels. > > >Of course, I'll try via Ancestry and Family Tree DNA to try to find >candidates we don't have to "beg to spit" (nod to Blaine Bettinger) but >would like to find a good representation of descendant lines. > >Thoughts or suggestions? > > >Mary E Hall >Santa Barbara, CA > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >----- >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 2016.0.7227 / Virus Database: 4460/11025 - Release Date: 11/18/15

Good stuff, Marianne- thanks! On Nov 19, 2015 9:18 AM, "Marianne Granoff via" <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > I would also recommend looking on Facebook and even using Google for > people with your surname. I have been successful in finding people > with the surname I was researching and then sending them a short > message about why I am looking for people with that surname to be DNA > tested. You can offer to pay for part of a test as an > incentive. Keep a list of those you have contacted. Sometimes they > will get back to you months later. > > I have also kept up correspondence with some of the people I have > found, and sent them email or messages when someone new joined the > surname group or was tested. In one case, it took over five years > for the person to be tested, but that was the person who broke > through my roadblock because he was a perfect match to my second > cousin (my closest male relative with that surname), and he had a lot > of information about his family history. > > It only takes one person if it is the right person :-) > > Marianne Manley Granoff > Albuquerque, NM > > At 06:46 AM 11/18/2015 -0800, you wrote: > >Does anyone have any recent successes in recruiting candidates for > >yDNA/Surname testing? There are 5 of us in a "group" within a surname but > >3 of us have paper trails that fall short of the probable common ancestor. > >We need some New Englanders who probably feel no need to do DNA testing as > >they've been in the same area for generations and all KNOW how they're > >related. I'm assuming some good candidates are not genealogists or family > >historians, so cannot be reached through traditional genealogical > channels. > > > > > >Of course, I'll try via Ancestry and Family Tree DNA to try to find > >candidates we don't have to "beg to spit" (nod to Blaine Bettinger) but > >would like to find a good representation of descendant lines. > > > >Thoughts or suggestions? > > > > > >Mary E Hall > >Santa Barbara, CA > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > >----- > >No virus found in this message. > >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > >Version: 2016.0.7227 / Virus Database: 4460/11025 - Release Date: 11/18/15 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >