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/19288.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The DNA for Rev John Thom(p)son's descendant should be "representative" of the DNA of the Reverend's descendant Jason Hazard Thompson (unless there is some concern that the Reverend and Jason Hazard Thompson were not really related after all). That is the DNA test to which I was referring for that overall family. It seems that what is needed now is a DNA test on a descendant of the other/later Jason Hazard/Hazzard Thompson to see if such a new male Thompson DNA donor is or is not a match to the above family. By the way, the "matching DNA donors" who are out of Abraham Thompson and Hazard Thompson (Hazard was a son and a grandson of men who were each named Robert Thompson) do not know how Abraham and Hazard "connect" to one another (i.e., they do not know the "who/when/where" of the "most recent common male Thompson ancestor" between them). Also, there is a new DNA donor who descends from a man named James Monroe Davidson (born about 1824 in TN; he was reared by a woman named Sarah "Sally" Davidson of Hickman Co., TN) who is a perfect 37/37 DNA "marker match" to the above-referenced descendants of Abraham and Hazard Thompson. Per a lot of research, it was expected that this "Davidson" DNA donor was probably the product of an "adoption" or an "out-of-wedlock birth," but a match to these Thompsons was a surprise. It would seem LIKELY that the connection is to the Hazard Thompson "branch" of the family, since Hazard was in TN, while Abraham was in KY (assuming that James Monroe "! Davidson" of TN was truly a "biological Thompson," versus some later man in his line being the first "biological Thompson" to be given the surname of "Davidson" in this family). 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.