If different branches of Loves got the DNA test, they would know whether they were related or not. You could then know that the Love line in a particular state is the direction you should go in. However, this should be balanced with your own documentary research too. Start with what you know. You know his name and when/where he died. Order his death certificate which will probably tell when/where he was born and his parents' names. Order his marriage license which will give you his wife's (your grandmother's) maiden name. Go to your nearest large library or call your nearest Mormon (LDS) Church and ask when you can go there to read census records. Pick the census of where you know he lived at his youngest possible age and work back in time. Eventually you'll find him as a little boy living in the household of his parents and you will then have another source for your gr grand parents' names. Once you know the gr grandparents' names, do the same kind of research on them. I started researching nearly 40 years ago and started this same way. Your grandfather has public records on him; look for them. Even the cemetery office where he was buried will have records; and the funeral home; and his obituary; a family Bible; a distant aunt. And yes, trace his siblings since they had the same parents. I've had a brick wall on a dif. side of my family for 35 years ~ my father's side. I did all the above. I found my grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather. But never was able to get past him. I even traveled to the counties and states where they all lived and went through couorthouse marriage books, deed books (the first deed in a county tells where he lived before moving there), will books, court books, guardian books. I went to the state capital and went through their archives for the area in which he lived. I went through land grant records for that state and military records. I have found no proof of that great great grandfather. They were living next door to each other, etc., etc., but that's not proof. My only hope on that side of my family is to request that my brother & others with that last name do DNA tests, and perhaps with the circumstantial evidence I have, it will satisfy the proof requirement. (And I don't accept things just because they're in a book; books are written by people and dependent on how much the author researched and what documents the author is willing to tell that were used ~ which most authors don't do.) So, keep researching so you have some circumstantial evidence to go with the DNA matching. Katheryn Ron Robershaw <[email protected]> wrote:Exactly how would it benefit someone like myself, who can't get past his G.Father?? How is the project supposed to work?? Thanks, Ron ==== LOVE Mailing List ==== To search the love message boards: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.love ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more