In a message dated 7/24/2007 1:11:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I am a female with Hall ancestry, my mother was a Hall and I have had a male first and second cousins tested for DNA and we have made a HUGE breakthrough in our Hall brick wall. We could get no further back that Charles Hall born in 1813 and now with DNA testing we have connected to a huge Hall family descended from a William Hall born c. 1730s died before may 1821 in Albemarle Co. VA. There is no way we could or would have made this connection without DNA. Ann Wooten Ann, That is great that you had male cousins who were willing to be tested. I have not had any luck getting any of my male Hall relatives to take the test. Charlotte ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour