All, The Reeves DNA Project website has been updated with the results of our latest matches. Here is the link again for your convenience. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~reevesdna/ As you can see, we are beginning to see the formation of groups. I am very excited and pleased to have found matches with Tommie Smith and our List owner Beulah McCain. I am looking forward to working with them. By combining our research efforts, we will hopefully be able to prove or disprove our independent findings. The results of this effort will not only benefit us, but it will help anyone who descends through the same lines. If you have been undecided about participating in the DNA testing, please give it serious consideration. The more people that participate, the more solid our research conclusions will become. I know the cost of the testing has been prohibitive for some people, but perhaps you can get several members of your family to contribute toward the test for someone in your family line. This project is extremely important, not just for those taking the test now, but for our children, grandchildren and the generations to follow. I hope Beulah will allow me to use her experience as an example. Since we are doing the Y-Chromosome DNA test, Beulah had to locate a male relative of the Reeves surname to take the test for her family line. After months of searching, she was able to get her cousin Antone Reeves to take the test for her. Sadly, Antone Reeves passed away just weeks after taking the test. If he had not taken the test, we would have never known that our DNA matched. Just something to think about. My sympathies go out to Beulah and the immediate family of Antone Augustus Reeves for their loss. Regards, Barry Reeves