Hello, My name is Clovis LaFleur, Administrator of the Stark Family Y-DNA Surname Project for the past three years. I am a retired Engineer, having worked as a Project Development Engineer designing Oil Field Services Equipment that measured different perimeters in the well bore. The Stark Surname Project is small in comparison to others, having 65 members at my last count. We are looking for members who have the surnames Stark, Starks, Starke, Starkes, and Stork. Presently, I have placed members into 11 Groups. I have various reasons for organizing these groups based on; 1) Genealogical Evidence and Genetic Matches; 2) US Descendants of Immigrant German Stark Families 3) Common Haplogroup; and 4) Unassigned. Our Group 1 as been divided into subgroups. All members of Subgroups 1a and 1b are known, genealogically, to be descendants of one common ancestor, Aaron Stark [1608-1685]. Aaron migrated to New England about 1630 and eventually settled in New London County, Connecticut. Members of Subgroup 1a are descendants of one of his sons, William, while members of Subgroup 1b are descendants of his other son, Aaron Stark (Junior). They are the only sons who could have passed the Senior Aaron's Y-DNA to those males with the surname Stark we know, genealogically, are his descendants. We are very fortunate, in this group, to have well documented genealogical data which has then been confirmed through Y-DNA test results of descendants of Aaron (Senior). These subgroups combined total 26 members. Being a descendant of Aaron, I have created a Web Site entitled, "The Aaron Stark Family Chronicles." You will find the home page at URL http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~clovis/ All of our members, accept for one, live in the US. In all of our Groups based on genetic and Genealogical matches, the common ancestor had immigrated from Europe. However, where this common ancestor lived in Europe is not known with certainty. We are hoping to be able, in the future, to attract male residents of Europe, with the above Surnames, to join our project to answer these questions. We have two Groups with the surname Stark that have their origin in Scotland and possibly England, but know, genetically, their Haplogroups have clearly proven there common ancestor lived about 3100 to 3900 years before the present. Our results are rather interesting and I invite the list members to visit my Project Administrator Web site at URL http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~clovis/Y-DNA%20Home.htm This will be the Home Page. You will fine the FTDNA public web site at URL http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Stark/default.aspx Look forward to corresponding with members of of the List in the future. Clovis LaFleur Fredericksburg, Texas