We have watched the increasing discourse of trying to find Scottish locations with DNA and hopefully with genealogy paper trails. Coopers we are not a Clan but an occupation beginning. However in FTDNA, Coopers have 130 donors in a well run Cooper Project where results are grouped by matches and include excellent paper trails in the USA also reported. Getting across the Pond has been difficult. Our Coopers are very probably Anglo-Scot-Irish, because of the Border Wars Dollarhide speaks of in his books. Many Border people moved back and forth over the border to avoid the many king's wars. Thus surname beginning locations are more difficult to nail down. Currently we have three Cooper lineages with good matches which start with Haplogroup J [J is England and J1 is Scotland], followed by Alleles of 12, 23, 14, 10, 15, etc. matches. We are a distinct group with these marker matches appearing to originate in England. However two of our lines begin in the USA in Salem, Washington Co., NY in a Scotch/Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Covenanter ssettlement beginning in 1764. Our family marriages are with Hamilton, Crawford, McFadden, McFarland, McEachron, Creighton, Hunter, Hanna, Harsha, McGilvra, Harrison, Wilson and we are connected with the Duguids and Coopers of Aberdeenshire. Supposedly we came from Cootehill, Co. Cavan, N. IRE, but this was a stopping off place probably only for about 10 to 20 years on a Plantation, but from originally both Scotland and England. For my John [1748-1803] and apparently his brother George [abt 1753-Abt 1825], they could come from Aberdeenshire or maybe Northumberland, as can be noted in the IGI. Then closely associated [living next to each other and signing family documents for land, wills, etc.] is a Joseph Cooper [1733-1819], who came from England to Ireland and then to Salem. For the John and George lines we have definite DNA matches, but also with a James from probably England to NJ. We are requesting a Joseph Cooper descendant to donate a DNA sample to FTDNA soon, to help us find our roots. These are focused DNA efforts. But we are very interested in those of you, who we could communicate with for info such as the Crawfords. My 4th GG Archi [Harrison wife}Crawford came from Bruteshire and his father John [Wilson wife] from Renfrewshire. It is this type of info we would like to furnish to various surnames listed above to see if we can find some paper trails that connect. In fact the Crawfords and the Duguids came to Steuben Co., IN with the Coopers and have lived there together. Can we have some correspondence, because this kind of cooperation can usually payoff.? We placed our marker data in the SMGF and only got 7 out of 19 marker matches, the highest and the related paper trails were from the Ancestral File, which are very poor, something known from long ago. Unfortunately we leave tomorrow for Rochester and Boston for Christmas Holidays, but will be back December 29th where in we will be fully involved corresponding. Russ Cooper [216-397-1195 or cell phone 216-224-3572] 2755 Derbyshire Road Cleveland Heights, OH 44106 Founder of NorthEast-Ohio - Computer-Aided-Genealogy ten years ago. Go to our Website <NEOCAG.NET>