This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kgDBAEB/194.384.402.1 Message Board Post: Nancy, I believe that there exists strong evidence that most of the Pickens/Pendleton ROPERs, including Aaron ROPER, are descendents of Charles ROPER and Anne GOODWYN through their several sons, some of which were found in Rutherford County, NC, in the 1790 Census. I have been sorting this out. Be aware that there is also an increasing body of DNA evidence from the ROPER DNA study being administerred by Dr. L. David ROPER. Though most of the North Carolina ROPERs and many of the South Carolina ROPERs have already been shown to be genetically the SAME Majority USA ROPER Family ("MUR") as the Virginia and Massachusetts ROPERs, there are small deviations in the markers (mutations) which tend to distinguish different lines. Also, there have recently been three (3) DNA Matches of English ROPER-surnamed test subjects from the Norfolk/Suffolk area, whose results show that their Norfolk/Suffolk families share recent common ancestors with the ROPER family in the USA. Se Dr. L. David ROPER's web site gnerally at http://www.roperld.com or more specifically the ROPER DNA Project pages beginning at http://www.roperld.com/RoperGenetics.htm . If you have a male ROPER-surnamed father, brother, uncle or cousin who can participate, that test subjet's results may help to identify precisely HOW Aaron ROPER was related to other ROPERs in Charles ROPER's family.