An Introduction

Thank you for visiting my blog.  I'm hoping that this will be a space where I can keep family updated on my progress of confirming paper trails via DNA.  Both sides of my family already have fairly good family trees back to my great-great-grandparents. However, that is where I start hitting brick walls.  I'm hoping through DNA testing, we can break some of these walls down.

I have started testing family members.  So far, I have tested:

Dad's side (Fox/Perry):
Dad

Mom's side (Loewen/Petkau):
Mom
Maternal grandmother

People I would like to test on the Fox/Perry side:
Autosomal--At least one or two of Dad's siblings
Autosomal--At least one cousin from the Perry side, and at least one cousin from the Fox side
YDNA--A Perry descendant
YDNA--Dad

People I would like to test on the Loewen/Petkau side:
Autosomal--A known Klassen cousin
Autosomal--At least one of Grandpa Loewen's siblings
Autosomal--At least one of Grandpa Loewen's cousins (hoping for one from his Franz side)
YDNA--A known Klassen cousin

People I am looking for on the Fox side:
Edwin B. Marvin--My great-great-great-grandfather.  So far, all I know is that he was born in 1822.

People I am looking for on the Perry side:
Samuel Perry--Also my great-great-great-grandfather.  I believe he was born in 1825 in England.
Mary Davis--My great-great-great-grandmother.  May have been born in 1831.

People I am looking for on the Loewen side:
Katharina Epp--My great-great-grandmother.  I know who her father was, but her mother is unknown.
David Franz--My great-great-grandfather.  No idea who his parents were.
Maria Fast--My great-great-grandmother.  No idea who her parents were.

People I am looking for on the Petkau side:
Justina ______--My great-great-great-great-grandmother.  No idea what her maiden name was.
Julius Willms--My great-great-great-grandfather.  No idea who his parents were.
Maria Willms--My great-great-great-grandmother.  Julius was her father, but I do not know who her mother was.
Peter Klassen--My great-great-grandfather.  No idea who his parents were.