The following new message has been added to the Williams DNA Project board under the new topic of DNA knowledge base... -------------------------------- Hi fellow DNA pacipitants; There is a very interesting option on the Family Tree DNA site. If you returned your signed release form, the names and e-mail addresses of people who match you closely or exactly are listed here. You can set it up to show your matches with your Surname matches but you can also set it to show all DNA that matches your DNA whether or not the surname is the same.This shows where your ancestors selected surnames that were diferent from yours and for all intents and purposes these are all distant kin of yours. To do this : first log on to the Family DNA site ; http://www.familytreedna.com/default.asp Second Click on setup Preferences, select the second selection that says - I want my matches to be set against the entire database,leave rest of selections set as they are, Go to yDNA matches. You will see a lot of distant kin with the same DNA as yours.After you are through looking at it you can change your selection back to show only matches that show your Surname. It's very interesting to see the diversity of different Surnames that your DNA matches. Also please post your information about your ancestors so that other people that match your DNA can compare the information and see if they can match ancestors with names in your research. Thanks Harvey Williams