Since my maiden name was not Thomas, and my one brother's name was not Thomas, I guess that leaves me out of this DNA testing. If I could find a male Thomas cousin, I guess that would help, but I really don't know any personally. My Thomas connection is through my maternal grandmother whose maiden name was Thomas. I have corresponded with a couple of female Thomas-type cousins who apparently live still in Alabama (not sure about that), one of them being Diane Blackwell. Diane, are you on this list? Could you or do you have a male relative who would be willing to be tested? Diane and I descend from a Stephen and Jane Thomas, out of North Carolina. I figure this Stephen was probably born anywhere from 1800 to 1805, something like that. We don't know Jane's maiden name, although her middle initial was "H", and whether that was her middle name or whether it stood for her maiden name, we don't know. Diane said that they definitely were from North Carolina before moving t! o Harris County, Georgia. Not sure when they moved from Harris Co., GA but they ended up in Coosa Co., Alabama, where my grandmother, Susan Americus Thomas, was born in December 1850. Now, I was just looking at a copy of a list of Revolutionary War soldiers in North Carolina, and found a Stephen Thomas on the list, which I had not noticed before because I was looking for another ancestor - my gg grandfather, William Gilbert (which, later, the two names joined up as my grandmother, Susan A. Thomas, married a grandson of William Gilbert - John Fleming Gilbert.) This was copied from "Roster of North Carolina Soldiers in the American Revolution" and sent to me by another Gilbert searcher. At the top she wrote, "Appeared on State Records Vol. XVII of the Reg of N. C. commanded by Col. Samuel Jarvis, page 1060. Payroll - Capt. Wm. Brinkleys Co." Anybody know anything about this particular Stephen Thomas, RWS? He just MIGHT have been the father of my known ancestor, Stephen.! Thanks for any response. Sue Howard P.S. My known ancestor, Stephen Thomas, was murdered in Coosa Co. because they thought he was harboring deserters from the Civil War. He had voted for an Abolitionist, John C. Fremont, in 1856. Another name related to my Thomas family was Gillespie since one child of Stephen and Jane's - Emily Thomas married a Gillespie.