I know Steve has more knowledge of this than I do but I am a Perkins daughter. My DNA does not reflect the Perkins line - it goes through each of the female line such as: my parents are George Perkins and Mrytle Valiquet my mtdna (which I have had tested) then goes to Viola Bates Susan Morrison Mary Ellen Forqueran Susannah Miller (born about 1794 in Bedford county, VA That is as far back as I have the female line but mine tested bact to the very first people who inhabited the British Isles and of the seven daughters of Eve (a very good book to read) I come from Ursula. It is very interesting. Jackie