Hello David, I am a Reeves from America. The state of Texas to be exact. I just wanted to mention that in New York Harbor there is Ellis Island where many immigrants came through after 1892. It has been turned into a great resource for some records. I understand they have a lot of ship records for passengers. The internet address of www.ellisisland.org I think will bring it up. I hope it helps. Tommie Reeves Smith David Reeves <[email protected]> wrote: Thank you for the kind welcome and links! I had read about the DNA project before and am willing in principle to be tested, but the payoff for me for such a cost still seems prohibitive for what I stand to gain, as the majority here seem to be in the US. It does pique my scientific curiosity though to be able to find out how much divergence has occurred. Do you have any idea how many Reeves have emigrated to the US, and how recently? I have not yet traced Thomas Reeves' male descendants, but presumably it is possible that I could do so reasonably easily using the online censuses etc and see if any of them disappear off the the US! David ==== REEVES Mailing List ==== To UNSUBSCRIBE: email and write only the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message - nothing is needed in the subject line. (Substitute REEVES-D in the address for the Digest Version)