DianeHagen48

Vancouver, WA, USA

Surnames of interest - NEAL/NEALL/NEIL, Hodges, McCurry, McKusick, McPherson, Rice, Hawkins, Turner, Hart & Knight. Looking for link between Zachariah Neal of Beaver Pond, Virginia, and James Milton Neal. PATERNAL HAPLOGROUP R1b1a2, M-269, Modal 6 UK L21+, proven by DNA through my father. Possible NPE (non-paternal event) in the Neal line. This means a single woman has a child and uses her surname as the child's last name. DNA results to date point in this direction.

***NEW DNA PROVEN MATERNAL HAPLOGROUP - U4a1 ("The Travelers"). Follows only my father's maternal line - mother Grace Hart, grandmother Susan Rice, great-grandmother Christine Zumwalt.