In a message dated 5/30/2005 5:48:32 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I highly recommend this process to all those folks who worry about being "daughtered out". Thank you Merrell for bringing this up! If a line is down to its last living male (or close, like Dad's alive, 1 son is alive, but there are only daughters after that), now is the time to get the DNA for the lineage done and registered. mtDNA will NOT tell you about the male WEBB line (unless there is a WEBB along it). mtDNA is the donor's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's....line It CAN be used to test theories about maiden names, sisterhood, two wives, etc. when used in conjunction with another person's sample (or other people's samples). It will also tell you another bit about your deep ancestry. And of course, it will document the male WEBB's wife's DNA for the future. I do recommend that ANYONE who has a documented mtDNA lineage which goes back to the Revolution or earlier have a hig-resolution mtDNA done. Researchers are beginning to talk about locational studies -- that is, for example, take my lineage (names are maiden names, birth date and place): Self Mother(WEBB) Grandmother (WITCHER, 1896, Grayson Co, TX) GreatGrandmother (Mittie Ellen RAMSEY, 1858, Pittsylvania Co, VA) GGreatGrandmother (Judith GILBERT, 1837/8, Pittsylvania Co, VA) GGGgrandmother (Lucy WITCHER, c. 1811, Pittsylvania Co, VA) GGGGGrandmother (Judah EDWARDS, c. 1786, Henry CO, VA) GGGGGGrandmother (Price?, c. 1750/60, VA) If we build a database of VIRGINA Pre-Revolution, and everyone who has a line like mine submits their lineage and mtDNA, we could come up with some matches and perhaps identify some of those lost maiden names. We welcome both Y-DNA and mtDNA in our Project as long as a WEBB is on the lineage. Anne