Hi Marlene, This really gets back to the privacy issue. There are several folks who have opted to not share their DNA results even with folks that they have a DNA match with (!) and others who only want their information shared with those with whom they have a significant match and the same surname. I have had numerous requests from folks wanting contact information for other participants in situations were they have only had 11/12 marker matches and other matches which FTDNA does not consider significant enough to be a match which indicates a close relationship. I cannot share contact information in this manner, but I always forward these requests for contact on to the person whose contact information is being requested so that they can make contact, if they desire to do so. I have never heard back from anyone in these situations, so do not know what the outcome has been. I could generate pages that show results grouped by haplogroups,minus any information that could violate one's privacy, and the results of those who don't wish their information shared, but question the value of this as FTDNA notifies all parties involved if they have a significant match, providing they have not elected to keep their results private. Folks with what FTDNA considers significant matches can therefore easily share their haplogroup information, so what would the value be in such a presentation of data? We currently have 185 participants, so this will take some effort, and the effort will grow as our project grows. I'd appreciate the group's thoughts on this. Best regards, Kevin On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 10:36 -0700, Marleen Van Horne wrote: > Kevin, > > As a Daniel descendant and a yDNA project manager, would you please > consider grouping the project participants by haplogroup, even is they > are not being grouped by earliest known ancestor. That would go a long > way to helping project participant do comparison of the various results. > > Marleen Van Horne > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DANIEL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Kevin, I've always considered the Daniel DNA site one of the best out there and greatly appreciate the information being available. I think making sure it remains up to date is really important. Personally I like the results organized by family and then families grouped by haplogroup. I don't know how the data is stored, but if it is in a reportable database then couldn't we sort however we wanted to? Thanks for all you've done over the years on the project; as you know, the results of our test solved our brick wall! Best Jan Daniel ________________________________ From: Kevin <kevin@kevindaniel.com> To: Marleen Van Horne <msvnhrn@jps.net> Cc: DANIEL@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:59:36 PM Subject: Re: [DANIEL] Back Again Hi Marlene,     This really gets back to the privacy issue. There are several folks who have opted to not share their DNA results even with folks that they have a DNA match with (!) and others who only want their information shared with those with whom they have a significant match and the same surname. I have had numerous requests from folks wanting contact information for other participants in situations were they have only had 11/12 marker matches and other matches which FTDNA does not consider significant enough to be a match which indicates a close relationship. I cannot share contact information in this manner, but I always forward these requests for contact on to the person whose contact information is being requested so that they can make contact, if they desire to do so. I have never heard back from anyone in these situations, so do not know what the outcome has been.     I could generate pages that show results grouped by haplogroups,minus any information that could violate one's privacy, and the results of those who don't wish their information shared, but question the value of this as FTDNA notifies all parties involved if they have a significant match, providing they have not elected to keep their results private. Folks with what FTDNA considers significant matches can therefore easily share their haplogroup information, so what would the value be in such a presentation of data? We currently have 185 participants, so this will take some effort, and the effort will grow as our project grows. I'd appreciate the group's thoughts on this. Best regards, Kevin On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 10:36 -0700, Marleen Van Horne wrote: > Kevin, > > As a Daniel descendant and a yDNA project manager, would you please > consider grouping the project participants by haplogroup, even is they > are not being grouped by earliest known ancestor.  That would go a long > way to helping project participant do comparison of the various results. > > Marleen Van Horne >  > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DANIEL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DANIEL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message