Josette: Some old people still don't believe man land on the moon, some use to believe the world was flat. I'm a descendant of Rev. Thomas Maxwell and Mary Pembertom, this Thomas was also the son of a Thomas Maxwell and Keziah Blake, 300 hundred years later no one knows any more now than then. With the thousands of Maxwell's searching this line, how come no ones found a thing going further back. Probably because the paper trail has ended and all those that knew are now dead. Now what's left to connect with. These paper trails were written by uneducated people, who couldn't spell, some couldn't write. They came to America for a new life and forgot where they came from. In your own statement below you said " there is a John Maxel (who could not write and who most probably was a Maxwell) in Chester Ct. PA 1712;" are you going to trust that for the truth. If your not interested in the DNA, go your way and don't be negative to a new and modern process, believe me you'll be back went the paper trail ends. Stop and think about it, I'm from Rev. Thomas, my 1/2 brother is also, my cousin, another Maxwell from the same line 100 years earlier will all carry the same chromosome as we do if he's also from Rev. Thomas, who knows your father may have it to, Just give it a chance to work. Larry Maxwell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josette L. Maxwell" <maxwelljl@earthlink.net> To: <MAXWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:16 PM Subject: [MAXWELL-L] DNA - does it prove anything? > The answer is that no properly credentialed geneticist, > forensic anthropologist or forensic archaeologist would > even suggest that DNA testing of current Maxwells proves > diddlesquat about who was related to whom 200 years > ago. Only if you could obtain DNA from the remains of > Maxwells living at the same time circa, for example, 1750 > in Pennsylvania could you perhaps establish a sibling > relationship, and they would emphasize perhaps. > > Anyone want to go back to genealogy? > > - there is a John Maxel (who could not write and who > most probably was a Maxwell) in Chester Ct. PA 1712; > died 1715 with will which cited brothers without naming > them and says he has one son who is a minor John plus > a sister Jane and a mother who is to be taken care of by > his brothers and sister. Anyone know anything about this > family? > > Josette Maxwell > Boone NC > > > ------------------------------------------- Introducing NetZero Long Distance Unlimited Long Distance only $29.95/ month! Sign Up Today! www.netzerolongdistance.com