Sue, There are times & circumstances where we may have very relevant matches to another / different surname. Examples would be, if there existed an unknown adoption or an out of paternity event. Also, for those of us with a family tradition of Welch heritage ... we can definitely have very significant matches to a different surname. The Welch didn't adopt the use of surnames until later than some other countries. Consequently, when they did start using surnames ... there could be within one extended family different surnames. They used the Patronymic system of naming, so for example, if two brothers had the given names of Thomas & John. The brothers Thomas & John both had male children; say Thomas had a son named David ... he would have been called David Ap Thomas. While brother John had a son named William ... he would have been called William Ap John. When the two first cousins took surnames, they probably or possibly could have been known as David Thomas & William Jones. If we tested the descendants of these two cousins Y chromosome DNA today ... they would likely be an exact match. With Sincere Regard, Carole Thomas Kane On Mar 31, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Carolyn S. Howard wrote: > Rory, I don't really know very much about DNA testing, except that I > do know > that it has to be a male doing the testing, and he has to be testing > for HIS > surname; for example, my brother's last name is "Johnson", so > therefore, if > he would do the DNA testing (well, he hasn't agreed to it yet), it > would be > for the surname, Johnson - not Thomas, not Gilbert, not Clark, or any > of the > other names we're related to. This is all I know, but you mentioned > that > other person not having the surname of Thomas. Well, then, you can't > go by > him, I don't think. Am I right on this, everybody? > > Sue Howard > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rory Thomas" <rbethomas99@hotmail.com> > To: <thomas@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:26 AM > Subject: [THOMAS] test > > >> >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it >> now! >> http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> THOMAS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > THOMAS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >