As I understood the initial message in this thread, the anxiety over getting the DNA test done is because Leonard Theodore Pace, the gentleman to be tested, is the only grandson of Leonard Pace b. 1879. If that is correct (and assuming Leonard Pace had no brothers), then the gentleman to be tested is also the only surviving male-line descendant of McDaniel Pace. There may be other present-day male-line descendants of McDaniel Pace's father, but their surname won't be Pace. I am mentioning this because it seems likely to be disappointing and frustrating for the family concerned if they hope to get a match through comparing the gentleman's Y-DNA with that of the contributors to the Pace study. If the surname of McDaniel Pace's father is known, there may be a DNA study for persons of that surname, and that would have a bigger chance of producing results for them. Ellen