Dear Mike, We have three people in the M222 group who have done amazing work over the past year to bring our M222 project to the very favourable position we are in today. We eagerly await updates to Iain¹s tree, perhaps not fully appreciating the enormous amount of daily work that he has and continues to put into analysis of the many sources of data that he routinely incorporates into this beautiful chart. Susan¹s foresight into the potential that analysis of new blocks of Y-SNPs held for M222, her enthusiasm for these new tests and her ability to communicate her enthusiasm for these tests was critical in getting the M222 group off to an early start in testing. She has also answered hundreds (maybe thousands) of queries that have kept us all informed. She has taken on a relentless front line analysis of all of the data coming in and her contributions to the development of Iain¹s tree cannot be underestimated. We saw this recently with PF1169, where she was the first to report a new insight and the one who obtained the data from Jim Wilson that cemented the position of PF1169. Mike has taken on M222 in addition to his work with the bigger L21 project. He has provided us with astonishing, accurate databases, which are highly interactive and searchable. I suspect that many of us routinely look into his "R1b-M222 haplotypes² file to find SNPs and STRs and genetic distances. His "R1b-M222_SNPs Chromo 2² file is a masterpiece that is probably studied by everyone. All that being said, I think we would all be horrified that Mike should even think of ³dropping out" of the M222 project. We would be lost without you, just as we would be lost without Susan and Iain. David On 2014-05-03, 8:56 AM, "Mike W" <mwwdna@gmail.com> wrote: >You are both welcome to join.... I just checked and I see you are in the >group, Doug. I just invited Iain. > >Joining the R1b-L21-project yahoo group doesn't mean you need to post >messages if you don't want. You can also set your messaging options to >receive no emails so you don't have to receive messages either. The one >thing you get is a free shared file space. This is a good way to share >data >a little more openly. Unfortunately, when we do all of things on our own >personal PCs or personal websites, God forbid, if something happens to one >of us the work is lost. > >Susan H is a co-moderator in that R1b-L21-project group. We (or she) could >easily setup M222 only folders. > >Of course, last year I offered to setup up an M222 specific yahoo group >for >you. That's always an option too. I can set it up, and I can personally >drop out too if that is desired. > >I've seen this happen where we lose track of stuff and we can't figure it >out later when someone is no longer available. That's all. > >https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/R1b-L21-Project/ > >Mike W >