Gwen Bjorkman wrote: We have some new DNA results tonight for Richard Hoyt James and these results were not due back until February 3, so I think the time is getting shorter and shorter for these DNA tests. Richard has one mutation in the 25 marker test and another mutation in the 37 marker test. So even though we know that all three of the men are very closely related there has been two mutations in the Richard Hoyt James line. This is David Mitchell James family line and I would like to hear his comments about this. In comparing 37 markers, the probability that David M. James and Robert E. James shared a common ancestor within the last... 100 years is 83.49% 200 years is 97.28% 300 years is 99.55% 400 years is 99.93% 500 years is 99.99% 600 years is 100% In comparing 37 markers, the probability that David M. James and Richard H. James shared a common ancestor within the last... 100 years is 29.03% 200 years is 68.8% 300 years is 89.22% 400 years is 96.74% 500 years is 99.09% 600 years is 99.76% Well, Robert James is my father, so I'm glad we match exactly. Richard James is my father's 2nd cousin. Their grandfathers were brothers, sons of my great grandfather, Josiah Eaton James, b 1849 in Calais, Washington, ME and d 1920 in Princeton, Washington, ME. So, the predictor is pretty good -- My father and I do share a common ancestor in the last 100 years, and Richard James and I do not, but we do share a common ancestor in the last 200 years. One of my goals in joining this project was to establish a DNA "fingerprint" for our family. Based on these results, I need to find another cousin to test, in order to find out whether Richard Hoyt James' result or the result for me and my father is the one passed down from our common ancestor, Josiah James. And, in the bigger picture, I'm still waiting for someone with a documented lineage back to Edmund James of Newbury, MA, that is different from Josiah's to see if our Washington County, Maine, branch really does descend from him. David