Mike Humphrey here, admin of the FTDNA Humphrey project (all spellings, past & present), 71 members. I have Gedcom files at FTDNA, IGI, Ancestry.com, my personal web-site _http://humphreygenealogy.com_ (http://humphreygenealogy.com) , with 3000+ names. I also co-admin the Liles project I started the FTDNA project after initially testing with Oxford Ancestors seeking to eventually "prove" a father-son NPE, and I was lucky enough to find a 9th cousin, who tested at age 83. We had 35/37 & 65/67 matches, affirming 5 generations of family verbal lore. A lot of sleuthing occurred to find our 9th cousin, and the contact came from info at a reunion of 3rd cousins in upstate NY. This link confirmed a male-line family tree back to 1620 in Dorset. We've had success at FTDNA, merging several family trees, finding ancestors back to 1565, 1577, & 1620 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire; Honiton, Devon; and Lyme Regis, Dorset. We've been able to merge some trees back to Wales, circa 1700 - mostly spellings of Humphries or Humphreys. ----- Currently, I'm a professional trombonist & computer science consultant - retired from the computer biz in 2003. I worked as an applied mathematician/computer programmer in the aerospace industry for 10 years, Boeing, Lockheed, Aerospace Corp., mostly mathematical modeling & programming missile flight simulations. An early project: math modeling of the exhaust plume of the Saturn V rocket booster for Apollo 11. Later, I worked for several computer companies, CDC, KSR, Cray, SGI, SUN, adapting computer simulations to massively parallel computers, with dozens or hundreds of processors. E.G., I parallelized & optimized weather prediction applications on SGI systems with over 1000 processors at NOAA GFDL in Princeton. I focused on aerospace simulations and weather prediction models at the end of my career, working again with Boeing, Lockheed, NOAA, and many universities. I've done genealogical research for 40+ years, and was bitten by the DNA bug over 10 years ago. When genetic testing was commercialized, I took the opportunity to solve our "NPE", and then became fascinated with human population studies, reading Cavalli-Sforza's papers at Stanford & others. I followed the burgeoning activities on WebSites like Rootsweb, and I've really enjoyed seeing the progress made by researchers like Ken Nordtvedt! Happy Hunting ... Mike ... ========================================