Hello! We have finally got the link to allow people to donate to the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project. Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project link: http://members.cox.net/johnrcarpenter/index.htm Donation link: www.familytreedna.com/contribution.html Please indicate your donation is for: Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project FTDNA (Family Tree DNA) has now provided a way for people to support others in Carpenter Y-DNA research. This will help many people get started, upgrade and help others. This money can only be used for FTDNA testing for the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project. FTDNA WILL MATCH DONATIONS given in OCTOBER 2004 to help start off this program. See details below. Please make a donation, even if it is $5.00, $10.00, $25.00 or more to our Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project. Donation link: www.familytreedna.com/contribution.html Please indicate your donation is for: Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project Many Thanks in Advance! John R. Carpenter Webpage/Fund manager Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project PS Encourage others to help out. DO you know a Carpenter named business that might be willing to help out? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 1:07 PM Subject: More on the General Fund and "Matching Gift" from FTDNA > To Carpenter group manager, > > Many of you have contacted me requesting more details about the Surname > Project General Fund. Here it is: The General Fund was created as a tool > to be administered by Family Tree DNA, so that it is not a burden to the > Group Administrator: > a) Family Tree DNA collects/disburses the money and keeps a log under the > General Fund link in the GAP > b) The Group Administrator tells FTDNA to which kit we should apply funds. > c) We have created a self-explanatory page to be used by those who want to > make a contribution to their family DNA project: > www.familytreedna.com/contribution.html (You will also find a link to > this page under the General Fund at your GAP). > > You are welcome to send the above link by e-mail to potential > contributors, as well as publish it in your website. In addition to that, > if you have a public web page for your project at Family Tree DNA, we are > including in the setup page a box where you can choose to have that > "General Fund" mentioned in the blue bar, on the left side of the page. > > -- Matching Gift from Family Tree DNA: in conjunction with the launch of > the General Fund, Family Tree DNA will match dollar per dollar the > contributions to Surname Projects during the month of October, up to a > total of $200. There are 3 conditions for the use of FTDNA's matching > dollars: > > a) no more than $25 that has come from FTDNA can be used per test, > b) FTDNA matching gift can be used only for new kits, > c) FTDNA contributions from the matching gift need to be used before the > end of this year, as they will expire on 12/31/04, whether used or not. > > If all Surname Projects took advantage of this matching gift, Family Tree > DNA will be committing a total of over $250,000 to new tests! > > Finally, a couple of reminders: > a) We will stop accepting registrations for the conference after October > 11. We already have over 160 participants! > > b) While the intention is not to push it, we don't want to be blamed that > people did not know about our October mtDNA promotion in conjunction with > the launching of the Mitosearch.org website. Therefore, in response to > several e-mails, yes, you are welcome to inform your members about it and > give them the link: > http://www.ftdna.com/mtdna_promo.asp . Note that the promotion is also > extended to mtDNA "add-ons" for those who have already tested their Y-DNA. > > As always, we thank you for your continued support. > > Max Blankfeld > Vice-President, Operations and Marketing http://www.FamilyTreeDNA.com > "History Unearthed Daily" > [email protected] > 713-868-1438 >