Well I paid about $189 last year for a 37 marker test. You can have less revealing 25 marker and 12 marker tests for less money. However, a 12 marker test on Thomas would give you unmanageable results. Check the Thomas DNA Study page Donna Bray Braydon29@kc.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nela T. Brown" <ntbrown@houston.rr.com> To: "Goldie Williams" <goldiew@centurytel.net>; <thomas@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [THOMAS] Nathaniel Thomas > Maybe you and others in your family who are interested in genealogy > could share the cost of the DNA test. The test itself is very simple > and totally painless and bloodless because all you do is use a test kit > swab to rub inside your cheek, drop it into the provider holder, and > mail it back to the lab. It would be so sad to miss this opportunity > for the DNA test given your male Thomas relatives are elderly. Do any > of these elderly Thomas gentlemen have male descendants that might be > willing to participate? I'm an advocate of DNA testing for genealogical > use because that is how my group of Thomases finally broke through a > brick wall that we had been pounding on for thirty years and had finally > concluded that our earliest known male Thomas ancestor had simply > dropped onto earth from another planet. > > Goldie Williams wrote: >> To those who have responded to my questions on Missouri and Tennessee >> Thomas, I say thank you... >> The information on Nathaniel that James shared is a little more than I >> had and is encouraging, only if it just gave me one more fact.... >> >> Early in my search, I discovered that Francis Marion was probably named >> after the Francis Marion, It's amazing how one search will lead off into >> another... I wasn't too fond of history while in school, especially about >> any war... now I find myself wanting to know more and more... it's >> amazing how many wars have been fought within our borders. >> >> As to Thomas DNA studies, I'm afraid theeare no longer any male Thomas's >> in my line who are interested in doing a DNA study... the ones left are >> elderly, and if I had the money to pay for the test, they would probably >> not want to bother... but oh how I would like to find our line once and >> for all... even if I still wasn't able to pin down a specific person, I >> would at least know whether I'm on the right track... >> >> Goldie Williams, Living in Missouri Ozarks >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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