Hi Wayne, The testing might give me clue if my line is related to yours if we get back a match to someone in your line. Right now I am stuck. If my Jacob happened to be a cousin to your John, which we have no idea if they are or even could be, this might confirm they are from the same line. Then because there are some Thomas' that go back even further and if someone from one of those lines also does the testing we may end up tying my line and your line into another line that has been researched further back. Or it may rule out we don't have a match and we know not to look that way. I don't look for the testing to be the only way we establish our ancestors. I still will be looking into old documents, markers, military records and so on for my research. But it would be nice to know that part of my line might have landed in PA and some of the children went to VA, or TN or GA....etc. Heck, what if an Uncle, a brother or a cousin came over at a later time or some family stayed behind in their country of origin? So then we have cousins still in Wales, Germany, Spain or just about anywhere. If these cousins across the oceans were tested all the more information we would be collecting. Barb -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Thomas [mailto:[email protected]] My line (John Thomas, Sr. b. 1710, Henrico County, VA and Winifred Dameron) has been pretty well researched. Is the anybody out there who is trying to connect to my line? In other words. will my participation actually benefit anyone?