Hello Peter, Sorry for the delay in answering. I was on the digest list so didn't see your message until I went to the archives. Unfortunately, to try and find descendants of Joseph Bernard you would need to have a male descendant of Joseph bearing the Bernard surname to be tested, and I guess that would be quite a job. Only males have Y-DNA and it is useful for tracing back on the male line only as fathers pass their Y-DNA from father to son down the generations. It is not passed to daughters. Female DNA or Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is passed to sons and daughters, but only daughters can pass it on. As the female name changes from generation to generation it is little use for family history research, although it is used to indicate the deep origins of the female line. The surnames Barnard and Bernard are often interchangeable, hence the name of our project. My own family name changed from Bernard to Barnard in the 18th century. Regards, Alan >Joseph Bernard married Dorcas Pitt (c.1737-1794) at Yarmouth St >Nicholas on 9th April 1764. I found one child so far, Dorcas Pitt >Barnard chr 1767 buried the following year. > >Any good? > >I am connected to the Pitt family. > >Regards >Peter