Craig, the FF test gives each participant MANY more matches than the yDNA test does....and of course, it is open to both males and females so there are potentially many more participants. my FF test gives me about 240 matches. Most of the matches that I have identified are on my mother's side and are NOT NN ancestors....they are families who were living in eastern KY in the early 1800's....But I have only identified common ancestors for about 10 of my matches and they have been easy ones: THey still carry a surname that I recognize or they were a cousin with whom I was already in touch. One of the interesting things that happened for me is that my dad's closest yDNA match, Gene Hawkins, just took FF test and his results did NOT match mine. We are not FF matches. We were quite surprised when we had no match. Perhaps it is because our closest Hawkins ancestor was more than 7 generations back. I do believe that his Hawkins ancestor and my Hawkins ancestor were both in the NN in the early 1700's and perhaps earlier. I will ask Gene to join the FF project.....He believes that he descends from James Hawkins married to Jane Bourne....they were no longer in NN when married but I do believe both families were originally form the NN. My rambling this morning did lead to something constructive....Gene will happily join. marsha moses

Marsha, (1) I am thrilled you are participating in this. All I can do is get the Kilby yDNA test linked, which I don't think is going to yield much (2) I have told you 1,000 times to be careful with the Hawkins....there were MANY of them, all over Virginia and Maryland. They loved the names Benjamin and Moses and Matthew. Maybe this project will help sort them out (3) I want to take the atDNA test, but I'll need another relative (or three) do join me. My only Kilby side brothers could care less and I'd have to break into the funeral home to get their DNA. But I do have more far-flung cousins who might participate. (Those who have Hawkins descendancy) This is going to be a great project but if I am any example, there is going t have to be a lot of 'splaining to do. I get the concept, I just don't get how it works as a project especially since its purpose is to test atDNA and those results are not on the FTDNA web site. My understanding is that another web site is required for that (or testing lab...I'm just not clear on this.). I'm sure it will all become clear as times goes by. Judging by just the last few days, I can see it is going to be a fantastic tool for all of us. Craig On Oct 20, 2012, at 9:02 AM, marsha moses wrote: > Craig, the FF test gives each participant MANY more matches than the yDNA test does....and of course, it is open to both males and females so there are potentially many more participants. my FF test gives me about 240 matches. Most of the matches that I have identified are on my mother's side and are NOT NN ancestors....they are families who were living in eastern KY in the early 1800's....But I have only identified common ancestors for about 10 of my matches and they have been easy ones: THey still carry a surname that I recognize or they were a cousin with whom I was already in touch. > > One of the interesting things that happened for me is that my dad's closest yDNA match, Gene Hawkins, just took FF test and his results did NOT match mine. We are not FF matches. We were quite surprised when we had no match. Perhaps it is because our closest Hawkins ancestor was more than 7 generations back. I do believe that his Hawkins ancestor and my Hawkins ancestor were both in the NN in the early 1700's and perhaps earlier. I will ask Gene to join the FF project.....He believes that he descends from James Hawkins married to Jane Bourne....they were no longer in NN when married but I do believe both families were originally form the NN. My rambling this morning did lead to something constructive....Gene will happily join. marsha moses > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message