The FERGUS(S)ON group is doing well. We now have some 60 members and have results which reveal that the genealogy of some Virginia FERGUSON is not as has been supposed. I recently updated our website using John McEwan's modal tables. We have significant subgroups corresponding to I1c1-Isles, R1b-Atlantic, R1bSTR19Irish and R1bSTR47Scots. We also have a subgroup that I call R1bSCT2VA or "Scotland to Virginia" characterized by DYS 390, 391, 392 = 23, 11, 13. This does not correspond to any of the modal STR values presented by McEwan. Within the R1bSTR19Irish Haplogroup are the FERGUSSON of Dunfallandy, Athole, Perthshire. I believe we have ruled out any non-paternal event via the analysis of two FERGUSSON of Athole ancestry whose TMRCA is on the order of 1,000 years. The first evidence of this family is when Angus McFergus, the King of Fortrenn, or of the Southern Picts, defeated and killed the King of the Northern Picts at a battle fought at Blathvlag, near Loch Broom in 729 A.D. The BIG question is "are the R1bSTR19Irish or the R1bSTR47Scots FERGUSSON descended from Fergus, subking of Dalriada, who colonized a part of Scotland in 470 AD?" You may find us on the web at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~colin/Ferguson/DNA/ -- Cheers, Colin Ferguson