We've now passed the 8700 membership mark for the R1b project so we've grown by 2600 people this year. https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r1b/about/background We also have seen improved resolution on the R1b formalized trees. ISOGG now lists over 500 unique branches and FTDNA lists over 1100. Partly this is due to the large number of new SNP packs FTDNA has put out this year for R1b. YSEQ also has extensive coverage for R-M269. We are seeing a large movement to 111 Y STRs and continued growth in NGS testing, particularly with new Big Y orders for subclades L21 and DF27. Probably the hit volunteer effort of the year has been Alex's Williamson's NGS tool/analysis - the Big Tree for R1b-P312. http://ytree.net/ Regards, Mike W On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Mike W <mwwdna@gmail.com> wrote: > We've had an acceleration in growth recently in the R1b project. This is a > chart from the project statistics taken this morning. We are over 8,500 > people in the project. > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17907527/R1b_Project_Growth.pdf > > I'm encouraging people to upgrade to 111 Y STRs while they are on sale. > Here is more background on the project; and the haplotype and gateway > services provided. > > https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r1b/about/background > > Co-admin Gail R has been fantastic in supporting the project! Thanks to > her we have some order. > > Regards, > Mike W > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Mike W <mwwdna@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >

Alex is our hero! :) lol On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Mike W via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > We've now passed the 8700 membership mark for the R1b project so we've > grown by 2600 people this year. > https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r1b/about/background > > We also have seen improved resolution on the R1b formalized trees. ISOGG > now lists over 500 unique branches and FTDNA lists over 1100. Partly this > is due to the large number of new SNP packs FTDNA has put out this year for > R1b. YSEQ also has extensive coverage for R-M269. > > We are seeing a large movement to 111 Y STRs and continued growth in NGS > testing, particularly with new Big Y orders for subclades L21 and DF27. > > Probably the hit volunteer effort of the year has been Alex's Williamson's > NGS tool/analysis - the Big Tree for R1b-P312. > http://ytree.net/ > > Regards, > Mike W > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Mike W <mwwdna@gmail.com> wrote: > > > We've had an acceleration in growth recently in the R1b project. This is > a > > chart from the project statistics taken this morning. We are over 8,500 > > people in the project. > > > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17907527/R1b_Project_Growth.pdf > > > > I'm encouraging people to upgrade to 111 Y STRs while they are on sale. > > Here is more background on the project; and the haplotype and gateway > > services provided. > > > > https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r1b/about/background > > > > Co-admin Gail R has been fantastic in supporting the project! Thanks to > > her we have some order. > > > > Regards, > > Mike W > > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Mike W <mwwdna@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -- Lisa R Franklin RN,BSN Admin, Franklin Y DNA Project http://trackingyourroots.com/FranklinGenetics/ FranklinGenetics@gmail.com http://trackingyourroots.com/DNA (How To presentation (23andme), tips, & helps. *2**3**&**m**e**: **The World's Largest database & coincidentally the ONLY one with all the tools you need for genealogy and DNA!--* http://refer.23andme.com/v2/share/6158544791499756901/4672616e6b6c696e47656e657469637340676d61696c2e636f6d BEST GENETIC GENEALOGY BOOK! http://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Genealogy-Emily-D-Aulicino-ebook/dp/B00HJJWBU2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391174801&sr=8-1&keywords=Genetic+Genealogy