Great job Bonnie! Thank you so much for doing this I backed you and facebooked it out I will also add it to my end of year blog post :) --------------------------------------------------------------- Kitty Munson Cooper, web developer,programmer, San Diego,CA genetic genealogy blog at http://blog.kittycooper.com/ family history and genealogy at http://kittymunson.com On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Bonnie Schrack via < genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > We received an outstanding flood of generosity for several days after my > initial posting about our project. I'm so grateful to this community! > Our total is now at $6300. > > However, the job is not yet done. While you're busy making your > last-minute charitable donations, please take a minute to help us reach > our goal by January 6th. The end is in sight! We're still $1355 short -- > not bad, but it means we need a number of people to pitch in. > > http://Experiment.com/A00west > > I think there must be a few of you who are waiting to the last minute, > to see how much we'll need to put us over the top. There's no need to > wait, as you can easily increase your donation on Jan. 5th if you see > that we need it. > > Plans are going forward for Thomas' trip to Cameroon in late January. In > addition to helping with sampling and returning results to donors, he's > going to be sending back a lot of pictures and geospatial data, maybe > even live video! Please help us get ready, and not run out of the > support needed to send Matthew out to collect the samples, and for YSEQ > to test them. > > I've been looking at the most unusual haplotypes, other than the 35+ > A00, from those tested so far. It looks like at least two of them might > be Cameroonian R1b! Whit's predictor doesn't include a lot of the > relevant African haplogroups, but it classifies another one as Q. In > Africa? Maybe an extreme outlying R1b? These obviously will need to have > SNPs tested if we ever want to find out what they are! > > I've just come to the conclusion that another belongs to the rare B1 > clade, and it wasn't hard to see that another is A0a1a. Another one > could possibly be B2b, but it has no near matches, it's still a mystery. > At least one is E1a, three of them look like E2, and three others, I'm > sure are B2a1. > > None of these non-A samples will be tested with your current donations > to the project, which are for the purpose of learning more about A00. > We need to focus, first and foremost, on meeting the goal of our > campaign at Experiment.com, because remember, without the A00 project > going forward, we won't be able to continue collecting and discovering > such rare kinds of Y-DNA. If you have already donated to the project > and would like to send us something to help identify the mystery > samples, you may send a donation to the PayPal account and designate it > for that purpose. Thanks! > > Bonnie > > http://experiment.com/A00west > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >