To nobody in particular - You don't pay for the test until you've sent in the
DNA material swabs. So. Let me tell what I'm thinking of doing:
I have a Hill surname cousin-relative in his 80s (that a closer cousin located)
who doesn't seem to "get it" about DNA testing, thinks there is expensive
"blood work* and the like. Cousin has suggested we three meet in June and I
think he plans to come, we'd go to their family cemetery together &c. I could
get a test kit and take it with me. In person I'd show&tell how simple, and
hope he'd participtate. I'd send it in & pay. I know that a branch of Hills,
one or 2 sons of a dozen children left MA Colony to RI, then south centuries
ago, the rest stayed up north, like ours to NY, others CT and PA. They have 2
matched "southern" representatives in the HILL yDNA research group. It would be
important to compare.
Likewise another surname I research, our exact line "daughtered out". I took on
the project of trying to identify other descendants of the McKinney we descend
from who was born early 1700, married in NY 1745 - by records as I can find
them including census. I did locate one single living male and that went
nowhere, don't know what the stubbornness is about but if/when I locate another
and if that person isn't too interested or maybe cannot afford yDNA testing and
I am satisfied of descent then I will have the test kit sent and pay when it's
received by FTDNA. There is another set by this surname close by in NJ early
1700s that has identical "family lore" that my grandmother told ME late 1940s
with 2 participants in that yDNA project. I want to know if our ancestor is
related on one hand, on the other establish our McKinneys in the database.
So. If you have identified a target line of Chapmans and attend summer family
reunions or correspond, you've got some creative options that may work for you.
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