So you’ve traced your genealogy line, becoming excited with each new person you found, and then you hit the preverbal brick wall. If you’re tracing Hamby genealogy, then your frustration is shared.   

You’ve found the earlier 1700 records from St. George Parrish, Maryland. If you’re lucky, you’ve found land records, census records, marriage records, death records and wills. But, you still can’t prove, for example, that Jeremiah and Isaac are brothers even though they lived next door to each other and named their kids after each other.

 Logic tells you they have to be. . .

 Now, with the lower DNA costs, you can help to put conjectures to rest. With a simple swab inside the mouth, you could help document your line.

 I think of all the money I spent traveling across country: the cost of gas, hotels, food, and wear and tear on my car, copy fees, walking graveyards in the rain, buying cemetery books so I didn’t have to walk them, and so on and so on.

 If I kept track of everything, the cost would be well over the $200 for a DNA test.

 To start with, if we could get 1 male descendent from each known line, that would go a long way toward putting theories to rest, no matter how good we think our theories are, myself included.

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