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