Mona,

I'm interested to learn what connections your Family Finder test made on the Arnold side.  I've been researching the family of James Arnold and Mary Peacock, and their son Jonathan and his wife Catherine HIcks for a few months now with the belief that Jonathan and Catherine are the parents of my 3rd great grandfather William Arnold.  Their son William H. Arnold is the right age and was in Hickman County at the time my 3rd great grandmother Elizabeth Groves married a William Arnold.  The only problem is, I've just discovered another William Arnold in Hickman County about that same time and I'm now uncertain as to which family my William Arnold belongs.   If your Family Finder test matches any of the descendants of my William, I'm in good shape.  If not, I may need to be tested myself to be sure.   Did your test turn up any obvious Arnold descendants?  I'd be happy to share my Ancestry.com tree with you to show you my William's descendants in case any of them ring a bell.

Jeff

Mona,

My ftDNA profile shows me as Jeffrey Allan Stewart, and as Jeffrey Stewart in GEDMatch.  If you can remember your GED profile, can you check to see if you come up with any match with profile #A297676?  That test is from the person who matched me and appears to be a descendant from a Kentucky Arnold line.

Jeff

Mona,  your father and I matched on Chromosomes 1 and 11, with an estimated most recent common ancestor at 7.4 generations back.  One particular segment where we matched was common to another ftDNA test subject that I matched and have at least one know common ancestor, through the Warrens of Rappahannock, Virginia, myself through William Warren and this other test subject through his brother Thomas.   Does your father have any known Warrens in his tree?  Its always possibly that my connection to this other test subject was through someone other than the Warrens, but that's the only known common ancestor I've found with them.  And then again, Thomas Warren was reputed to have been a bit of a scoundrel, with at least one known illegitimate child with the surname of Payne or Paine.

As for our shared chromosomes, none of the chromosomes I share with you were common to your father, so they were all from your mother's side.  Just as you and I both matched kit # A297676 though his mother and then separately through his father, I match both your parents.

Jeff