Thank you Herb! Just so everyone knows, there's nowhere in my site that recommends they only do a 12-marker test. The participant chooses which test they'd like to order. I DO recommend they join a surname project if one exists, as I did with the Tucker who is in the project. But what should they do if a surname project doesn't already exist? Laurens is a place to start and they also have the benefit of a discount by going through the project. No surname project in existance, no discount. Same with mitochondrial results. One cannot join a mtDNA project until they actually know what their haplogroup is, and they need to test that to find out. Unless of course it's a mtDNA heritage project like Ireland mtDNA or Laurens. The Laurens DNA Project is less than a year old, other surname projects like Freeman, et al are older and have had time to grow. Something else I actively do is recruit partcipants from Laurens to test, and that may someday help someone get through their genealogical brick-wall by leading them to the paper trail. Laurens County is a fantastic county with 200+ years of records and no courthouse fires! Thanks again for your reply! Katherine