Hi Dale, Don's oldest known ancestor, Thomas Maxwell, and my oldest known ancestor, Robert Maxwell (d. 1792) lived very close to each other in Chester Co. Pa. They also have other similarities. For the last few years Don and I have assumed they were related and we assumed they were brothers, however, they could have been cousins, distant cousins or anything else. My father, Marshall Maxwell, took the dna test and the company compared 10 points on my dad's Y chromosome with 10 points on Don's Y chromosome. We have found that there is an almost perfect match. The science behind this test proves that Thomas and Robert were brothers. Although this doesn't help us find Thomas or Robert's father, we now know more about this relationship than we did before. I know I would be very interested to see if any of the North Carolina Maxwells match our dna. This test could also prove or disprove that the Georgia Maxwells came from our gene pool. Besides all this, I think the whole process has been fun and interesting. While I'm writing, I would like to express some concern I have about bad data that keeps coming back to me with my name on it as the source of that data. It has always turned out that I've never seen the data before--it didn't come from me. I have combined my Maxwell family tree with only one other tree because I was sure of a connection and I was very sure of the data. However, I think it's important to not include other people's family trees in your family tree. If someone makes a change in the data and that data is stored in other trees, we are now perpetuating a data integrity problem, bad and confusing data being passed around. Following is a link to my tree, however the email address is wrong on my web page. My hard drive has crashed and I'm working on it. I'll change the email address on my website as soon as I get my pc up and running again. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/x/Debra-Maxwell/index.html Thanks, Debbie Maxwell Lakewood, CO -----Original Message----- From: L. Dale Shrader [mailto:ldale@lightbound.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 7:02 PM To: MAXWELL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MAXWELL-L] Question This subject is starting to get tooo deep for me. Heck all I wanted to do was find some of my Maxwell kin. I don't want to prove the paternity of anyone. All I had was Just a simple question as to who the parents of My G Grandmothers Husband were????? Oh! my G grandmothers husband was Joseph F. Maxwell b. 1848 in Ohio Co. Ky. I don't see how your DNA testing and or program is going to find them????? If you are so sure it is going to the final easy answer to all of our research. I have one question for you:::: Have you patent your idea and are using us as your testing forum?? If you happen to run across Joseph F. Maxwell. I would be very very grateful and would not ever question your system again!!!!!!!!!!!! I am Just a member that has been reading for weeks now about this DNA.system By the way, I also watched the O J trial !!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: abcfhist To: MAXWELL-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 7:27 PM Subject: [MAXWELL-L] Question How would you get the testing done if someone has been dead since the 1700's? Wouldn't you have to find where they are buried and get permission to dig them up and then how would you go about gtting sample to get tested and what would you need to get and where would you take it? Beth