John, Sorry for misleading you. Unless you have roots in the Pa Dutch communities or ancestors among those early squatters who stole Indian lands in Ohio, we are not related. The things that interest me more than finding out where in Germany, Sweden, Wales, and Ireland, my family came from, are the events that happened over the years and were left off the documentation. There was a girl who was adopted into the family - she was "handicapped" and did not live to adulthood. She most probably was the illegitmate daughter of someone within the family. Then there is mention of a set of twins who lived at the family farm, and were said to be "odd". According to Mom, the twins went away and were never heard of again, with the thought that maybe the just hopped a train, and from her childish view, felt that everyone was glad they were gone. My sister has two autistic children, and the "odd" behaviors are similar to those of one of her boys. Was there autism in the family long before it came under modern scrutiny? These are the questions we have about our family history that cannot be answered by DNA tests, at least at present. Anne Anne Pemberton [log in to unmask] http://www.erols.com/apembert http://www.educationalsynthesis.org ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html