Good morning, My name is Donald Drake and I administrate the Robinson DNA surname project. Our results can be found at the URL referenced in the signature line below. We currently have about 47 results posted. I haven't been able to push the project as much as I would like because my ISP's spam blocker keeps bouncing messages from this list and then I get unsubed (usually take about three days). I get about 300 messages a month from the Drake list and very few are bounced, so I am not sure why I have the problem with this list. Anyway . . . With current DNA technology, by comparing the DNA signatures of two living donors (both male and with the same surname) we can determine the probability that the donors share a recent common ancestor, say within the past 600 years. On our Drake project, this has helped us determine the family lines for several individuals who had previously hit a brick wall in their research. In our line we have no idea who the parents of Benjamin Drake b. 1729 and died and 1827 Carter Co., TN. were. Now, because of DNA, we still don't know his parents but we have a 99.93% probability of sharing a common ancester within the past 400 years with donors who have a documented connection to Cpt. Francis Drake (b.1618) of NJ. We don't know Benjamin's parents but we now know what family to search. We also have another donor who thought he had clear dcumentation back to Cpt. Francis Drake, but the DNA results were so unlike the CFD donors that he had less than a 1% chance of sharing a common ancestor within the past 1200 years! He now knows that there is a mistake in his research and we have been able to determine which connection is wrong. And he has solid matches with several donors whose EKAs were in Isle of Wight, VA. I ask each donor to provide me with the name of his Earliest Known Ancestor (EKA) and I identify each result by Kit# and EKA. I would also like EKA charts, (the same format you would use for the DAR) so we can let people see how the donor is descended from the EKA (we don't publish the most recent generations without permission). For myself, I am looking for male descendants of Robinsons from Pike Co. and Floyd Co., KY and from Russell County, VA. Please contact me if you would like to join our project. Thank you, Don Drake -- Donald E. Drake Moyock, NC http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~drakerobinson/index.htm -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/193 - Release Date: 12/6/2005