Corinne Curtis wrote: "...Can I now assume that the HEVENER descendant does share a common male ancestor with the SINNETT descendant, and that the common ancestor(s) are likely to have been Patrick SINNETT and his future wife Catherine HEVENER?" Hi Corinne, If I understand the situation correctly, it seems a pretty safe bet -- not just a common male ancestor, but a common male LINE ancestor (much more restrictive). You didn't make it clear whether your Sinnett and Hevener DNA donors are both descendants of lines that came through West Virginia, but even if they both are, the odds against a second, conicidental Sinnett/Hevener NPE seem pretty astronomical. Since they match each other exactly after 6 generations, their mutual 37-marker STR pattern is very likely identical to the ancestral pattern (or at most, a marker or two off). -Mark Bunch (GOONS #6223) Othello, Washington, USA