Dear Herb, Please be patient with me. I'm not trying to be impertinent. I honestly want to understand what you are saying. And there may be other people out there in as much of a fog as I am. I've never heard of the Genographic Project. My cousin was tested last summer, and no one has suggested that he have more testing done. All the matches we got had the last name "Rogers" which is our family name. He did the 12 marker test primarily to find out if we were related to the Benjamin Rogers family that had settled close to our family in MO. We had been stewing over this one for years. It turned out that we did not match that family at all. 1) Are you suggesting that even though we did not match the descendants of this family, we may be related to them? I thought it very encouraging that our ancestors had migrated to the same areas as the 4 Rogers families we actually did match and which I've already discussed to some extent. Our brick wall had been Joseph Rogers, born in SC in 1788. But we had suspected that his family was originally from Virginia because that's where his wife's family (Mullings and Garrett) was from. Two of the families we "matched" had come from Virginia and gone to Tennessee. Joseph served in the Tennessee Militia during the War of 1812. So we have a few more similarities than just height and weight, so to speak. We have last name, 12 marker match, and geographic locations. So, bottom line: 2) Are you saying that we are NOT related to the families we matched in the 12 marker test? Or that we are only POSSIBLY related to them? God Bless you too, Carol