This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells, Almon, Jones, Power, Finnell, Roberts, Cox, Adams, Eaton, Vandiver, Elkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4435.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: With regard to your Jeremiah Wells I don't know how much help I can be. The fact that the DNA of your line does not match any other suggests to me the possibility of an adoption, a name change, or a late date for immigration. I am thinking that if you ran your DNA results through one of the online data bases that provide a matching service you might be able to find out if you match another family of a different surname. I know there are such sites. As to the Almon surname -- I have traced my line back only to Louisa Co VA ca 1770. There is, however, a SC and Georgia connection I have run across. Here is a comment I received from someone connected to the Sansum-Echols family that married into a branch of the Almon family at Louisa Co VA. This is a small world after all, interestingly enough, there once was a gentleman by the name of Mr. Milner Echols who married none other than a Miss Susannah Sansom, Daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth Sansom. Their Granddaughter married a Mr. Zachariah Phillip Almon, son of Jonathan Holston and Delaney (Taylor) of Edgefield District, South Carolina, and moved in the 1820's to Georgia. Though there isn't any blood relationship between Thomas Almon and Hezekiah Almon of Edgefield District, South Carolina, Father of Jonathan Holston Almon. However, based on information from a Mr. William Almon, in the 1880 Census stated his father was from Virginia. Hmmm...Maybe there may be a blood relationship... Zachariah Phillip Almon is my Great-Grand Uncle. I don't know how helpful this may be, but it is all I have. My connection to the Almon family is through a g-g-grandmother b 1838 in Indiana.