This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Milner, Milliner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/10045 Message Board Post: Seeking Scottish Milners for possible free genetic genealogy testing. Evidence has been mounting that the Milner line(s) of Edward Milner, born 1745, and or Isaac Milner, born 1775 had Scottish Ancestors. For example, the following item titled: Past and Present of the City of Springfield and Sangamon County, Illinois, by Joseph Wallace, M.A., of the Springfield Bar, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, 1904 included the following: "......James Milner, who follows farming and stock-raising on section 22, Ball Township, was born in Wayne County, Illinois, January 27, 1846. The family is of Scotch descent, and the grandfather removed at an early day from Virginia to Kentucky. Subsequently, he became a resident of Illinois, settling in Wayne County, where his remaining days were passed. His son, Joseph B. Milner, father of our subject, was born in Grayson County, Kentucky, in 1825 and was reared to manhood in Wayne County, Illinois, where he married Frances Jane Wonack (sic.) [Should read Frances Jane Womack, according to the Illinois Womacks], who was born in that county, a daughter of James Wonack (sic.), also a native of Kentucky....." Donald Power Maxwell Jr., M.D., and Jon Mark Milner are seeking direct line male Milner descendants for possible genetic genealogy testing to be done through Family Tree DNA, of Houston, Texas. The test involves inner cheek cell samples, obtained with a scraper. The testing is for genetic genealogy purposes only. The genetic markers involved would be termed junk DNA and don't involve any connection to DNA testing for medical or disease purposes.