Hi Lewis, BTW, it really is Granuaile now [pronounced Grawn-u-wail]. Ever since April 15 when my court petition was approved. :) Right now the only ones in it are my dad and myself [we are also still in our Flanagan project as well, since FTDNA now allows that]. I hope that it will motivate a lot of Russell county families to obtain DNA testing, and I also hope that it will be both a repository for haplotypes associated with Russell County surnames and a clearing house for signatures that do not fit into their respective paper trails. In my Flanagan project we have 5 participants from my Flanagan line, from Bryant Flanagan, but two descendants of one of those lines are not even close to matching the other two. What is interesting is that their DNA has close matches even at 37 markers to some French lines which was the maiden name of Bryant's wife Milly. It just seemed that now that FTDNA allows to join a second project [and continue in the other as well] it seemed ideal for situations! like that, which I suspect was due to a member of the French family being adopted by Milly and Bryant. And some Russell County surnames just don't have projects. A Dunbar project was just started though. Anyway, I hope that people do join it, whether because their surnames do not have a project yet or as a second project because of roots in Russell Co. I originally had considered just Russell Co., but then I thought about all the migration between counties in that area and felt that being too narrow would be counterproductive. I also didn't want it to encompass the entire state, so the counties are somewhat arbitrary. My best regards, Granuaile -- "Knowledge is the best cure for the poison of ignorance" Granuaile Lythande O'Flanagan gflanagan@adelphia.net Web Page: http://flanaganfamily.org DNA Project Page: http://dna.flanaganfamily.org DNA Project Results: http://flanaganfamily.org/FlanaganHaplotypes.html Yahoo SN: transgendered40351 ---- LewisHart <louhart@comcast.net> wrote: ============= Hi Gary, I am glad you started the South Central DNA Project. I hope you get a lot of participation, especially around Russell County. As you know I am already in the HART DNA Surname Project. Can I transfer my test results to your new project or would I have to be retested? Thanks. Lewis Hart