This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goff Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5MZ.2ACEB/1202.2.1 Message Board Post: Charlieann, Your Goff family is perfect for the DNA testing. I don't recognize this family as being part of the four Goff brothers of western Virginia descendants, but that's OK. We have identified now four major Goff families. This test will show from which one, if any, that your husband descends. In the GOFF Surname DNA Study, we offer four labs. Three of these labs are summarized at http://home.comcast.net/~philgoff/GoffDNA.htm and you can compare costs and processing times. The fourth lab has been added only recently and is at http://www.relativegenetics.com/genomics/search/surname.html?surname=goff. I hope your husband will signup for the study. In terms of having results by your father-in-law's birthday, you will notice that one of the labs on the Goff page has about a two week turnaround. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks, Phil Goff