Susan, Technology marches on! Hey, as a mechanical engineer I know about technology, and I know that some tests are worthwhile while others could be redundant and/or worthless. But let us keep the flame burning brightly! And my DF85 results and 67 to 111 upgrade at FTDNA are due in about 2 weeks. Doug On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Susan Hedeen < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Doug, sorry for the delay in answering, but I had to compact my mail > as even after weeding through, archiving, saving and deleting stuff I still > have nearly 19,000 that I need to weed through--no joke, it's been awhile > since I've paid attention to it until I ran out of email allotment. > > You have done a lot of testing in a very short period of time. To that > end, you have gone way beyond the call of duty in a very short period of > time. Also, the decision should be a personal choice based on all the > reasons you as an individual may wish to and/or wish not to test based on > your goals and what you believe may be accomplished, etc. > > I am really touched by your confidence and sincerely appreciate the fact > that you recognize that the work regarding M222 that I do is aimed at the > benefit of individuals and the project. This indeed is my intention... > > But I'm NOT the only one. There are countless individuals in this project > present and past, you included, who do the same: volunteer time, post to > the forum, look at haplotypes and results until bleary eyed, research > historical and genealogical information, spend money on testing, and all > the rest. Every person works on stuff...and we owe our administrators our > gratitude for managing the project pages and results; Linda, for instance, > has been tirelessly checking daily for orders and results, setting up > result groups in the project pages and more. > > Testing needs to be a personal decision, and I'll not make that decision > for another person. Hope that is ok. Susan > > > > > > On 11/10/2013 10:46 PM, tuulen wrote: > >> OK, dear Susan, >> >> I know you work long and hard at this project. >> >> And so in my respect for you I will take whatever test you could ask for. >> >> Doug >> >> >> >