For my personal Johnson surname project, I have this situation. Thomas Johnson b circa 1740 had two sons who married. Thomas b 1771 and Benjamin b 1774. For the descendants of Thomas Jr., who are in England, Canada, and the U.S., I have had no problem in getting people to participate. For the descendants of Benjamin there are 5 living males who are in England. Not even 1 of them will consent to having their DNA tested, even though I offered to pay. I was approaching them through their wives, who are the genealogists in the family. The wives were all for it, but not the men. Karen Johnson Brampton, ON Canada

Do you have any Y-DNA tests done for your Johnsons in the Brampton area? Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Johnson" <karenj@ca.inter.net> To: <y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 8:27 AM Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] Country of Origin Participation > For my personal Johnson surname project, I have this situation. > Thomas Johnson b circa 1740 had two sons who married. > Thomas b 1771 and Benjamin b 1774. For the descendants of > Thomas Jr., who are in England, Canada, and the U.S., I have > had no problem in getting people to participate. > For the descendants of Benjamin there are 5 living males who are > in England. Not even 1 of them will consent to having their DNA > tested, even though I offered to pay. I was approaching them > through their wives, who are the genealogists in the family. The > wives were all for it, but not the men. > > Karen Johnson > Brampton, ON > Canada > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > Y-DNA-PROJECTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message