I have a Joseph Curtis West b. New York; migrated to Dekalb Cty. Indiana in 1844 with family. I can send you all I have on my ggg. grandfather. ---- Original Message ---- From: Ally3729@aol.com To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WEST-L] Willis West Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:17:16 EDT >Bradley, > >I am glad you asked the million dollar question. Not that we know of. > We >(Fran West Powell and I) have been trying to get someone from the >family of >Willis West to participate. Nothing yet. > >My name is Alice West Ferguson and my brother, Rudy West participated >last >year. We match 12 out of 12 markers with James West, b. 1798, SC. We >believe >that we are connected to his first wife and children. No records of >name from >the marriage only ages. He moved to TN and later moved to MS where >he died. >I am in contact with James West descendants (2 female cousins (Mary >Hill and >Beth Strue)) who lived in TX. There is another gentleman, Joseph West > whom >we matched also. He had an extra marker, 13th marker. But we all had >12 out of >12. We think James West was related to Willis, maybe a brother or >nephew. >Maybe you can find something out since we hit a brick wall. > >We believe that we are connected to the Willis West family. My g >grandfather, Silas West lived in the same block of dwellings as his >son Lloyd West >descendants of Willis West in the Westbrook Township, Sampson Co., >NC. > >How does one get families to take the DNA test? Its really easy. >The four >of us chipped into together and paid for out DNA test. > >Alice WEST Ferguson ... W53 WEST DNA PROJECT > >Descendant of Silas West b. abt. 1832, NC > > >==== WEST Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe send a post to <WEST-L-request@rootsweb.com> >Type UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. >For Digest substitute the letter D for the L in the address.