Hi everyone. In march of 2016 some of my cousins on Facebook talked me into having my DNA tested at Ancestry. I ordered 3 kits just before St Patrick's day and they finished Lab Processing on May 3, 2016. I have since had more tests done for various family members and have uploaded my DNA for several kits to GEDmatch.

Since having my DNA tested I have found several matches with cousins both close and distant, and have DNA evidence that I and my cousins, who are descended from Henry Asa Herring and Amanda E. Graves are also related to descendants of Henry Sharp, Stephen Graves, Joseph Ballinger, Nicholas Gibbs, and each of their wives.  I have found a few matches with my Reed cousins and whole bunch of cousins descended from William Henry Price Bristow and his parents and paternal grandparents. I have found a few DNA matches who link back to every one of the other ancestors that I have listed in my Henry Asa Herring and Amanda E Graves Extended Family tree.

DNA testing is a great tool to use in building and extending your Family Tree. It must be used along with other genealogy evidence to build your tree, but it can supplement the paper trail and prove that you and another person are related and share DNA from a common Ancestor.

Dennis Reed GEDmatch # A569226