We must account for the genetic mutations. If we do not get a 25/25 match but a 23 or 24/25 match then the gene has mutated and the connections must be further back and therefore there are family lines of whom we have not accounted. Joe Matlock >>> <BA044@aol.com> 7/1/2004 10:27:14 AM >>> In a message dated 7/1/2004 7:54:03 AM Pacific Standard Time, Joe.Matlock@state.tn.us writes: Three: We can further state and reasonable so that JC, Leonard, Robert, and MJ are related but at perhaps that generation further back than George and Jane. Joe, If the above is the case, Help me to understand this... MJ... is coming from George son of John Matlock Jr... Son of John Matlock Sr of New Kent Co.. Brother to the William of NJ... IF How can it be that MJ would perhaps be a generation further back? Are we assuming that John of Hanover, the one said to have married Hester, not be the son of John Sr? Brenda