The Cobb & Cobbs surname DNA project is well along, but currently it has a focus on the American descendants of English immigrants. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cobb/ So far, we have found roughly nine genetically distinct families bearing the name, including the following: Descendants of Ambrose Cobbs of Kent and Virginia Descendants of Joseph Cobb of London and Isle of Wight, Virginia Descendants of Nicholas Cobb of London and Isle of Wight, Virginia "Elder" Henry Cobb of Barnstable, Massachusetts I myself am of the Joseph Cobb line. Evidently, he was a dissident and puritan, and named his three sons Joseph, Pharaoh, and Benjamin, as in the biblical story Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors. I believe that he may have been from Norfolk (see http://www.one-name.org/profiles/cobb.html). At this time we are seeking participants from Ye Olde Country to help us learn more about the name and its distribution. One primary question is whether all nine lineages are still extent in England, or whether some have died out (or, for that matter, that there are ones that we have no evidence of here in the US). We are working with both Ancestry 149/179USD (http://www.tinyurl.com/cobbdna) and FTDNA 169/268/359USD (http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/cobb/results). We would greatly appreciate having this information passed along to any biological males bearing the Cobb name! Thank you, Stephanie Admin Cobb surname FTDNA Guild of One Name Studies #5587