Why DNA

     Try as we might,  we have not been able to get past Francis Copshire stepping on to the boat in London in 1674.  It's true that we have found numerous Capshaws on various censuses but most of them have, upon viewing the actual images, become Capshaffs, Capsticks, Clapshaws, etc.  The few Capshaws that we have verified are singletons with no family around them and no link with their past. 

   Then a new tool was developed.  At first DNA was a tool for anthropologists but genealogists saw the potential in this new field.  Companies were formed, Oxford Ancestries and DNA Heritage in Great Britain and Family Tree DNA in the United States.  Their success lead to many copiers.  Today these companies have amassed large databases of DNA profiles.

     Major media, all over the world report virtually on a daily basis of success stories with people who have tested, breaking through blockades in their family research that have lasted in some cases for years.  This is the promise of this new technology.  Although, still in it's infancy, DNA genealogy offers a way past those burnt courthouse and destroyed census records and above all hope of finding homelands across the pond.