I found an exact match using the 25-marker test, with a genetic distance of 3 when compared to the 37-marker test. We are definitely related. We have a 50% probability of being related within 5 generations and a 90% probability of being related within 16 generations. The other Grant indicates that his oldest Grant ancestor is probably John Grant, who was born probably before 1755, was a private in the King's American Regiment in the Revolutionary War, and died in 1783 in New York, New York. His widow Elizabeth (_____) Grant and their children left with the Loyalist fleet for New Brunswick, Canada. She married as her second husband Henry Cronkhite in the fall of 1784. John and Elizabeth's son William Grant was born in about 1774, married Ann Maidstone Hillman on Nov 4, 1795, at Woodstock, York County (now Carleton County), New Brunswick, Canada, and died on Mar 26, 1847, at Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada. His family has been unable to find much about John Grant. We have determined that John Grant was 7 generations removed from my match, and Thomas Grant is 5 generations removed from me. So, there are two generations on my side that need to be identified. Both of us have been in touch with an Ashley, who is a match at 24 of 25 markers. Ashley's ancestors were in Lancaster County, Virginia, during the 1700's and England before that, the period we think that the earliest connection might have been made. We have not been able to find anything that identifies who that common ancestor with John might be. Allen Grant <'\\\>< http://home.houston.rr.com/agrant/genealogy/granthis.htm