Dick and jeanne, Participating in the DNA program is TOTALLY worth the money. It is an investment in helping fture genealogists. As well, for me it confirmed a whole family branch in the U. S. We could trace no known connections in the U. S. dating back to 1855. Me and the other person who tested have IDENTICAL paternal DNA, as well as same surname. So we now know beyond doubt that we share a common pater in Ireland and he had more detail on his ancestors in Ireland so I have been able to narrow the3 focus of my research to the Waterville area, rather than all of Kerry. With the scientific confirmations, who knows what will emerge in the future. So lay the foundations, plant the seed of future trees. Michael DANAHY http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/n/Michael-C-Danahy/index.html RESEARCHING IN MA (Hopkinton), IRE, ENG ALDRICH http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~aldrichnaa/ (one m SMITH, earlier ones m CASAVANT, COMEE, http://www.familyorigins.com/users/e/v/a/Jeanne-C-Evans LOVELL, PRAY, PRENTICE, RAWSON, SEALD, THAYER); http://members.xoom.com/jaldrich/Lines/Michael.htm Aldrich Family biographies, go to http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssociation/AldrichBios or go to http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aldrich/ CASAVANT (who m MORAN); CURRAN (who m DANAHY) DANAHY (b. in Hopkinton and who m LENAN, siblings m. TOLAN, JOHNSON, O'CONNOR) LENAN (who m O"BRIEN); SMITH (who m CASEY); PRENTICE (who m ALDRICH) http://www.prenticenet.com/roots/prentice/robert/#R4 RAWSON (one m ALLEN, later one TORREY) http://www.rawsonfamilyassoc.org/ THAYER (Thomas m WHEELER, son Ferdinando m HAYWARD); http://members.aol.com/Sadie476/Thayer.html