Don't forget that to date only Douglas Asa of this family has joined the Harper Surname DNA project. More male members of differing degrees of consanguinity are needed. Regards, My grandfather was Marvin Lee Harper b. abt. 1890 and died in 1962. He married Beatrice Blanche Thacker b. 16 FEB 1894 (d. 1982). Marvin Harper had a trucking business in the San Joaquine Valley (near Fresno, CA) and he had two children (both passed on) and both born in Texas. They later moved to California. My HARPER family is as follows: 1. Nicholas Harper b. 25 JAN 1705 in Amsterdam, Holland and married Elizabeth Behrn. 2. Jacob Harper b. 06 OCT 1726 in Germany and he married Mary Koonrad (or CONRAD)