Orin, Thank you for your response and help in locating my Wells line in Florida. My Wells line runs through Arsula Julia Wells, daughter of Berrien Wells, a son of Martin who had seven sons listed in the 1850 census of Putnam County, Fla. still living at home with him and Sarah. Enoch Wells, age 17, born in Ga. JACOB WELLS, age 15, born in Ga HENRY WELLS, age 13, born in Ga Jackson Wells, age 11, born in Ga Frederick Wells, age 8, born in Ga Alexander Wells, age 5, born in Florida BERRIEN WELLS, age 2, born in Florida in April, 1848. Berrien (Berry) A. Wells married Mary Jane (Blossom) Crews. Their children were: Virginia Wells, b abt 1868 ARSULA JULIA WELLS, ( ggrandmother) b March 3, 1876 in Bradford Co., Fl, d Oct 22, 1918, buried in Sapp Cemetery in Starke, Fl. Arsula married John Nathaniel Kelly, son of George Ellison Kelly and Hester Denmark. Locoa Oni Wells, b Sept. 16, 1880, Union co., Fl, d June 15, 1957, Buried in Oakland Cem., Plant City, Fl, married David Gilbert Kelly son of Elias J. Kelly and ElizabethParrish. Virgil Wells, b May 1887 John L. Wells, b Oct 7, 1889, Bradford Co., Fl, d March 9, 1911, buried in Crews Cem, Union Co. Fl, Mary Wells, b July 1895 Lillian Wells, Berrien's mother, Sarah Merritt Wells is buried in the Crews Cemetery with no date of birth or death but lists her age as 70 years old at the time of her death. I do not know where Martin Wells is buried but may be also in the Crews Cemetery in an unmarked grave. I believe he may have died before the 1860 New River Census. No, I have not met Joyce but would like to connect with her and share info on our family lines. What does family W024 mean??? Thanks, Ellen

"Ellen" <JKWILSONFL@aol.com> wrote: No, I have not met Joyce but would like to connect with her and share info >on our family lines. I will send you her address off list. I can not be certain the address is still current, but it is worth a try to compare notes. >What does family W024 mean??? Sorry. I forget everyone does not know what we are doing. For the past 5 years (how time flies!) we have been running the Wells DNA study. In the first phase of the project we identified 24 families we believed we could find enough participants to identify the family y-Chromosome DNA. This is done by finding two or more descendents who are widely enough separated on their family tree to give us confidence the DNA was representative of the "baseline" family, testing their DNA and matching it. We actually attempted to find four descendents from four different branches (sons of the earliest ancestor) where possible. We did not succeed in all cases but in most we did. We have since carried on testing still more male Wells descendents to see which baseline family they might match up with. Some didn't and in some cases we have uncovered additional "baseline families" - we are up to 40 now. One we can not find any descendents to test and three are actually being rolled into other families where we discovered they were actually one and the same. I will be posting the revised baseline data on Saturday. I assigned arbitrary family ids to each of these families. W001 through W040 currently for the baseline families and W050 through W365 (last count) for various ancestors who are in a branch representing the ancestor of a participant from whom only that participant is descended. Family W024 is the family of Jacob Wells b: Cir 1680 who lived in Duplin County, North Carolina. This family stayed in this area of North Carolina for many years. But looking at the data I have from the family I do not see your Martin indicated. You can view the DNA results by checking the following link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wellsfam/dnaproje/dnaproje.html (click results to see the data). The project is still open to any Wells males who want to see if they connect with the baselines or anyone else we have tested so far. Contact me for more information. Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <OrinWells@wells.org> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb