For those of you on this list who have hit brick walls, and may want to pursue your KING family line thru DNA testing, a little information. For Y-DNA tests, participant must be a MALE family member w/the last name of KING. I am Group Administrator for the KING Y-DNA Surname Project. All Group Admin's are Volunteers, (i.e. do not work for FTDNA). I just think this company has wonderful service, and personnel that have been personally helpful to me in my KING family research. FTDNA recently reduced prices for testing if you are part of the KING Surname Project study. Y-DNA-12 marker is$99; Y-DNA-25 markers is$159; Y-DNA-37 markers is$189; Y-DNA-59 markers is$269. I think FTDNA is the best of the diff. companies testing DNA. They have 2950 Surname projects and 59,159 Y-DNA records in the database. The KING DNA Project has 72 participants at present w/11 matches of groups of fr 2-5 people. It is the most accurate way to determine if you are related to another KING fam. For my family, we found that we were chasing the wrong tree branch. Thought we were related to the STONEKING fam. of PA. The Y-DNA test proved that incorrect, and saved me years of researching the wrong branch. Many of the KING fam's tested have researched their line back to the 1700's, which can save many years of searching if you find a match. Check out the KING DNA Project website: http://www.familytreedna.com/(svuzx455ofdpfk45a2kp5nvs)/public/KING_FamilyTr ee_YDNA_Project or http://www.familytreedna.com/public/KING%5FFamilyTree%5FYDNA%5FProject/ If you want to join our KING Y-DNA Project, go to the following website, you can contact me, or one of the Co-Group Admin.'s below. We will send you a join request. It takes abt 8 wks to get results, so once you get test kit, do the oral swab, and send back as soon as possible. The Y-DNA test is simple -- just a cheek swab, (no blood test is needed), fill out the forms accompanying the test and return to FTDNA.. They have just begun offering a 59-marker test to more accurately determine time to MCRA (Most Common Recent Ancestor). I intend to upgrade my KING's to 59 markers. We ask each participant to give us a Family History Sheet (like you send on Roll Call) to compare w/the research of other KING family lines. No living family members are included. Your Family History is posted on The KING Y-DNA Project website. DNA test results (markers) are at the bottom of the webpage listed by Kit number and eldest ancestor' name . If you would like more information on the company doing the DNA testing follow this URL: http://www.familytreedna.com/faq.html Hope this answers questions some of you have on DNA testing. We look forward to having you join our Project. Carol Cicotte Group Administrator KING Surname Y-DNA Project ccicotte@san.rr.com Co-Group Adminstrators: Peter KING kingkin@san.rr.com; Cosette Lewis cheeter@mailer.fsu.edu; Tom Howland tshj@comcast.net

Trying to contact VERNA with whom I have been in contact regarding Rachel KING of GA. Lost my hard drive and addresses. Rita Tanner