I am currently working to extend the line of William and Anna Binley forward through their ten tally-marked children in the 1820-1840 census enumerations. I have done a lot of traditional genealogical research on this family (16 counties & 9 states) and still have plenty more to do. However, the DNA evidence is confirming the documentary research completed so far.
I am still looking for DNA matches who will let me view their Shared Match list on Ancestry so I can look for connections to the family. JKS received very little Binley DNA and does not match MR. However, MR matches descendants of eight of William Binley's kids including some of the same matches that JKS matches.
The most interesting part of this project is that I have seen hints of William & Anna's parents in individuals who match others in the group but don't match anyone else until the line gets back into Virginia and Pennsylvania in the 1750s!
The amount of shared autosomal DNA is too small to really tell the level of relationship, but sizable shared segments denote that there's a genetic relationship from a common ancestor somewhere back in time. The process is documentary research, then DNA analysis to point in the direction for more documentary research.
