This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: tunnelm1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.thompson/19288.1.2.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: As shown in the link below: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BlackSheep/2001-09/0999392384 some believe that Robert "Roger/Robin" Thompson, supposedly a son of the Reverend John Thomson, was perhaps the first person who was killed by the British, as a prelude to the Rev. War. I will leave it others to confirm or refute this. As JDT53 stated, there is some very "uncertain information"....to say the least....concerning that particular son of Reverend John Thom(p)son. The Hazard Thompson (born about 1814) who was a son, a grandson and (apparently) a great-grandson of men who were all named Robert Thompson is shown in the link below (though I have no independent verification that this file is 100% accurate): http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3044190&id=I1543 I see that it was apparently Hazard's great-grandfather named Robert who is shown as having married Lettice Hazard. You do not know what DNA test you took? Were you given a bunch of "DNA markers," and if so, was any other Mr. Thompson shown as a "close match" to you? One of the typical DNA tests that Ancestry offers is the 43 (I think it is) marker Y chromosome test....so is that perhaps what you took? If you can give me some more information, maybe I can help you with what test you actually took. By the way, if you did take the Y chromosome test at Ancestry, you can have those markers transferred into the Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) website (see more below on that company) for a fee of $19. Because the two companies use different "protocols," however, only some of the markers from Ancestry will "transfer" into the FTDNA "system" (typically, only about 30 out of 43 markers at Ancestry have an "equivalent" in the FTDNA "system"). Note: Some of the "transferable markers" have to be changed to a different value, in order for them to "fit" the FTDNA system. Sometimes the markers that do transfer are enough to come to a pretty accurate conclusion as to whether or not you are a match to anyone else in the FTDNA database, but sometimes a donor will need additional testing done by FTDNA to really be sure. The good news is that FTDNA offers additional testing (typically the 37 marker test is selected) at a very reasonable price for the donors who transfer their markers into FT! DNA from Ancestry. You will have to provide a new DNA sample, however, for FTDNA to do any new testing. In any case, I would recommend that you take either the 37 or 67 marker Y chromosome DNA test at Family Tree DNA. That is the testing company that was used by both the descendant of Reverend John Thom(p)son and the descendant of the above-referenced Hazard Thompson. Here is the "public" FTDNA website for the Thompson surname: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/thompson/default.aspx?section=yresults You can see the three DNA kit numbers in the above website that JDT53 mentioned in one of his earlier posts. Comments/questions? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.