I checked this morning and see we now have 7701 members in the R1b project. Woohoo! Thanks everyone for your participation. We've had tremendous growth in the project over the last year. We've added 100 in just the last three and half weeks. https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r-1b/about There is a news web page at the project web link above if you click on the "News" tab. If you are interested in R1b, please look through these these tabs. The "Results" tab has list of scientific papers but I'm sure I'm missing some. If you have suggestions, please let me know. My graphic tree chart is a bit behind. I need to work on that. Mike W On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Mike W <mwwdna@gmail.com> wrote: > Great news! We just hit the 7000 mark. We now have 7000 members in the > R1b project. This just makes the 67 STR GD sorting/matching, Signature > marker with side by side SNP analysis more valuable. > > https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r-1b/about/background > > Better news yet, we have an extremely diligent and professional > co-administrator on board, Gail Riddell. Welcome, Gail. > > Mike W > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mike W <mwwdna@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM > Subject: R1b "Gateway" Project update and request > To: DNA Rootsweb <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> > > > I think we have something that is helpful newbie R1b folks.I've revamped > the big, old Kerchner R1b project a couple of times. > > You can read more about the project and its goals here: > https://www.familytreedna.com/public/r1b ( > https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r-1b/about/background ) > > and on the accompanying discussion group here: > https://groups.yahoo.com/groups/R1b-YDNA > > I've got a help tool, a spreadsheet, that can help evaluate testing > options leveraging 67 (or 111) STR haplotypes of folks that have done > advanced SNP testing. You can see example screenshots here in this brief > .pdf file. > http://tinyurl.com/R1b-Haplotypes-Help > > Essentially, this is like having the Y Classic, Y Colorized and Y SNP > project pages all combined into one, with the ability to select subgroups > of your own criteria on the fly. > > Genetic Distances, Variances, Modes, Means, etc. are calculated for any > selected group. > > Please invite any R1b predicted people in your projects to the R1b > project. They should stay in their current projects. This is just to help > them further define their more youthful haplogroups. > > Eligible testers are those that are > 1) R1b confirmed or predicted haplogroup from FTDNA, > 2) at 67 STRs or willing to upgrade (111 STRs is preferable), and > 3) that join the R1b project. > > Regards, > Mike W > >