Here is an example. Go to this site http://www.livingston.net/hilldna/ Then click the Frequently Asked Questions link. Question #5 may answer your question. Kaye in Texas --- Candy <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a little confused about what the project will prove, other than who in > this generation is related to who. There isn't any DNA available for our > elusive ancestors to sort out which line we are from. What is it that we > end up with, a confirmation that Joe Thomas in Arkansas is descended from > the same Thomas line as John Thomas in NC? > > -----Original Message----- > From: K Powell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [THOMAS] Re: DNA genealogy project > A couplefew comments. > > 1. You do not want to waste the money on the 12 marker test, since it's too > common among the population. Do the 25. > > 2. Sometimes if necessary, one can "sponsor" a participant that can't really > afford the test. > > 3. The project probably needs a coordinator for the surname group, or at > least > that's what I've seen done on other surname DNA projects. A web page, > perhaps > freepage at rootsweb, to publish results. Someone to set standards of one or > another sort, say of having a genealogy established back to some cutoff date > minimum. Often it's 1800. The coordinator may even be the one to order the > test > so that results are returned to him/her AND the test participant. Volunteer? > > (not me) (I have no known male Thomas anyway) > > Kaye in Texas __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com