Hoping to break through...

I am so excited - my uncle and I just sent off for a DNA test! I am the fourth generation looking for our brick-wall ancestor, Thomas S. MANESS, who disappeared before his son was born. We think he might be a man who lived in Moore County and eventually married several women. If he is the same man, we'll be connected to a long family line from Scotland that a wonderful genealogist from Moore County, Thurman Maness, has already researched. And Thurman has put his own DNA in the registry, so we have a baseline.