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/19288.1.2.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It does not look like what you sent me is a Y chromosome DNA test. It looks like an SNP test. I do not think believe that the SNP test will help you to "compare yourself" to other Mr. Thompsons who took only the Y chromosome test (but I am certainly no expert on the SNP test). You should take the 37 marker Y chromosome test at FTDNA, and become part of the Thompson DNA testing project there: http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join-request.aspx?group=Thompson&vGroup=thompson In five to eight weeks after you send your samples to FTDNA, you should know if you are a match to either the family of Reverend John Thom(p)son, or a match to the Hazard Thompson who was born about 1814 (and Hazard's proven relative Abraham Thompson who was born in VA about 1776). I just noticed something else that I find very interesting. As you know, that first/older Jason Hazard Thompson is shown by many as a son of Robert or Roger Thompson and Ann Ferguson/Farguson. Per my brief research on the internet, that Ann Ferguson was a member of the same family as the Samuel Farguson who married an Ann Brown (a daughter of Daniel Brown "II" and Elizabeth Coleman of Essex Co., VA and later Spotsylvania/Orange/Culpeper Co., VA). That Farguson/Ferguson family had previously married into the Stubbleson/Stubblefield family....so those later Fargusons/Fergusons were also Stubblefield descendants. The possible significance of this is that the above-referenced Abraham Thompson (born 1776 in VA), whose descendant is a DNA match to the descendant of the Hazard Thompson who was born about 1814, married an Elizabeth Brown who was a daughter of Hezekiah Brown and Elizabeth Stubblefield of Culpeper Co., VA. While it is not clear that Hezekiah Brown who married Eli! zabeth Stubblefield was related to the Ann Brown who married Samuel Farguson, all of the those families lived close to one another in VA. Bottom line....it would seem to me to be a pretty big coincidence (albeit, certainly not impossible) that Abraham Thompson and Robert/Roger Thompson both married into those combined Farguson/Stubblefield families, unless both of those Mr. Thompsons were somehow "connected" (especially since both families had later men in them who were named "Hazard"). So...maybe this is another clue that Robert/Roger Thompson (with a grandson named Jason Hazard Thompson) was somehow related to Abraham Thompson (born about 1776) and Abraham's relative Hazard Thompson (born about 1814). I would not be too surprised if Robert/Roger Thompson who married Ann Ferguson was NOT a son of Reverend John Thom(p)son after all....but I certainly don't have any proof of that, one way or the other. Please let me know if you join the Thompson Y chromosome DNA testing project at FTDNA. Thanks. 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.