This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MichaelCharlesWight Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/6416.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: If you and your Uncle are descended from the Deacon Samuel Wright line and therefore related to the Wright Brothers, his DNA profile will fit into the E3b haploid group and be a perfect or near (one or two allels off) match for the 9 or so of us all ready in that group. I am sort of the weird one in the group with a mismatch for DYS 464d at locus 25, but with an extra DYS 464 allele "e" that they didn't have a place to show in the chart. So your uncle's DNA could be off by one or two values, even be a little weird, but still show him to be a match for the Deacon's family line. Finding him to be a match doesn't tell us how he is related, just that he is somehow. Then you still face the the job of finding some way of tracing the lineage backwards to a likely location/person/event that can be used to dig up local records. At least with the DNA you have some general idea the routes this family group took to get to where you find yourself now, as opposed to the routes many other Wright clans may have taken. This hopefully narrows the geographic areas your search can continue toward. The New England Wrights (which were not all homogeneously related, either) are often mixed up and confused with Wrights of Pennsylvania and Virginia origins because all were here at a very early time, and traveled Westward to many of the same general destinations in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois at about the same time. There, these three Northern and middle States Wright groups then mixed with Wright families coming over from the Southern States through Tennessee and Kentucky. The records are generally better during this mixing time, but there were so many Wrights from so many different parts of the country mixing together in the midwest at the same time that you have to be very careful, very persistent and, sometimes, very lucky to unravel the origins of all of them in your community. Those of us who are part of the Deacon Samuel Wright line are often lucky with the records. Despite the fact that descendants of this line cast their nets far and wide, there were a thankful number of them who kept records of it. No better example of that exists than Bishop Milton Wright himself. As a minister he moved his family 12 times from NY to Iowa and many places in between before finally settling in Dayton, OH. Had he not been a dedicated diarist and taken an intense interest in the genealogy of his family and done the research work over a century ago that he did, we would probably still be wondering how his family is connected to the Deacon Samuel Wright of Springfield. Everyone should be so lucky as to belong to a family whose ancestors did so much leg work for us who are inquiring about it today. Good luck with the hunt for your truth. 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.