Joyce, it makes a difference if you are talking about a maternal or paternal DNA print match. The paternal DNA print test is on the Y-Chromosome which is unique to the male and is passed from father to son generation after generation and changes rarely, like on the average one-marker every 500-years as such is very useful in identifying familial kinships going back through the years. If you cannot find your most recent common ancestor back to 1850 it becomes much more difficult, if not impossible beyond that. If you have not used the message boards in genealogy.com, you may try that. I have found numerous irregularities with census records which compounds the problems when searching census records. I found one ancestor in RRC where the first name was listed as the last name in the 1860 USC. I found it only by doing a page by page search of the census. If it is a materal match this is another issue. I have yet to find a common ancestor with 20-25 mtDNA print matches with my mother's DNA print withother families. I have not gotten off the ground with this type of match research. Regards, H. Ben Cooper Bella Vista, Arkansas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce A King" <jkin467@juno.com> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Census Records Question A lady and I have connected our gr grandparents through a DNA project, however, through years of searching and every different spelling of their names, we have never found them on a census record anywhere--I even hired a professional to do the census check and he couldn't find anything - so, my question is, why would there be people that never show up on a census record? Has anyone else had this problem? Were the census records so inaccurate that this could happen? Anyone have any opinions on this?