This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: NancyKiser Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.phillips/8104.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, Mike, This is Nancy Kiser, the Assistant Administrator of the Phillips Worldwide DNA Project. We have over 250 participants and have identified 31 separate, unrelated Phillips families thus far, mostly American. We are very interested in recruiting more participants from Europe in an attempt to identify our deep roots in Europe. Since you are a male Phillips who can trace his roots back to Ireland, you fit into this category. The DNA test is painless and only involves swabbing the inside of your cheek to obtain cheek cells and then mailing your samples into the lab. Your kit is given a number and this is the way your samples are identified to protect your privacy. Here is a link to the Phillips Worldwide DNA Project web site at World Families where you can read more about the project and DNA testing in general: www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/p/phillips/index.html I hope you will consider joining the project. I believe DNA analysis is the best and perhaps the only way to correct the appalling accumulations of ancestral misinformation currently presented as fact on many internet web sites. Sincerely, Nancy Kiser Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.