This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ORWells Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/3778.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Donna, You may not want to receive this information, but I think you will want to have the genealogy you are starting to work on to be accurate. As you may or may not have discovered we have been running a Wells DNA study where we have been testing descendants of various Wells families trying to sort them out. One of the things this testing revealed early on is that Richard Wells could not have been the father of Zachariah Wells because the DNA for Zachariah's descendants just does not match that of John/Richard Wells. It does match that of Thomas Wells b: Cir 1656 who also lived in Maryland. The problem for us at this point is nobody has been able to figure out exactly how Zachariah was connected to Thomas' family. Do you need to use the genealogical knife to excise all the ancestors of Zachariah Wells you have in your tree. This bad information exists in a lot of printed works and it started back in the 1920s when a researcher who family today say should have known better, and probably did, wrote this into a newspaper article. If you want to discuss this further, please feel free to contact me directly. orinwells@wells.org Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.