This project is to search for common ancestors of people with DNA matches to groups of my cousins. We will work with both autosomal DNA and Y-DNA. We will use Big Y testing and use shared SNPS to help define ancestral lines. In the future, we will look closer at mtDNA. If you are my cousin, you are invited to join the project. If you are a DNA match to one of my cousins, you are invited to join. At this time we are investigating possible connections with other families on several ancestral lines. These include the following groups of surnames: Dixon Drake Dugger Ellis Evans Landrum Minton Miller Pamplin Pettus Shelburne Akens/Akin Boggs Bogle Karlton Kelly Kidd Livingston/Livingstone Stark/Starke Pace Terrell Ayre Bretton Holling Vincent Vinson Whitley Johnston Salter Feist Huber Kramer Meyer Obert Spattgalsten Vollmer Wegmann Birnbaum Goeke Siedhoff Calhoun Craddock McKee McNeill Teel