In our family, that would probably be impossible to follow that male line. My great-grandparents had 7 children, with only 1 girl. The first boy was killed by a train at age 6. Of the surviving children, the girl married-had no children. 3 boys married, only one had children-one of those was my grandfather. My grandfather married, had 4 children, 3 of them boys. One died at age 2. One boy and the girl never married. Only my father married and had children. My father had 2 girls. My sister and I are the end of that line. The only ones living in the family are my dad's sister, my sister, and I. I married and had 2 children. My son was killed by a train at age 11, and I have my daughter surviving. She had 2 children, but their DNA would only go to their father's family. Their father died and we have no contact with his family. They are all dead, and he was actually adopted. I'm not even thinking of going down that road to try to figure them out! In my mother's family, my grandparents only had two girls. And my mother only had two girls. My mother's sister had two boys, but they are estranged from the family. And, they would only show their father's line. All the people on that side of the family, except my aunt's two boys and a daughter are left. I'm not at a point where I'm looking at that side of the family. I'm going to leave that part up to their daughter. She has more resources, and is younger, can get around more. Anyway, I think that, in some cases, like in my family, the people are just gone. My daughter and her sons are not at all interested. But, then, I wasn't either at their ages. But, I thought that I had better get what I can done, while I still remember things. The DNA project sounds like it would be very interesting, though it is out of the question now, due to the expense. Cecelia in Texas >I see no reason in the world why it couldn't work. It would be a job to > follow the male line, but that could be done. >> >> nope, this is not a scam :) how can that thought even come up, with all >> the evidence out there, along with the fact that the science of DNA >> research does work :) >> >> "Since there has to be an unbroken male line between the people being >> compared, there's not much chance of that happening." >> >> how do we know there isn't much chance of that happening ? do we know >> 100% >> positive that those people did not have descendants that survived to >> present day ? >> >> >>> >>> How do they expect DNA testing to work? Since there has to be an >>> unbroken >>> male line between the people being compared, there's not much chance of >> that >>> happening. >>> >>> Bob Juch