What tests do you all use?  Aren't there several different ones?  I'd love it if I could get one of my 1st cousins to do the test -- even better my brother, but like that's gonna happen. 

 

I have several first cousins and first cousins once removed around me, all bearing the surname of Tope, so I ought to get on their case and see if anyone would be willing.

 

Now here's a DNA question.  My cousin Earl is related to me on two different lines Tope and Morgan, would his DNA match my family's more exact for that reason?  On the other hand, he's through my great grandfather's first wife, and I'm from the second, will that mess anything up?  Though the first wife's parents are the parents of my gg grandmother on another line.  Now if that isn't confusing. :-)

 

I wonder if my cousin Bud would be willing to do it?

 

When you order the kit do you have to have a person named, or can I order a kit and take it around to cousins and see who's the first to offer to do it?

 

Thanks,

 

Linda.