Gregg, Sad, but understandable. Your efforts have been without reproach and we all owe you a debt of gratitude. Well done. And thank you for all your efforts! It would never have got this far without you and Phinn. David Newton Conroe, TX -----Original Message----- From: newton-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:newton-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gregg Bonner Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:51 PM To: newton-l@rootsweb.com Subject: [NEWTON] DNA Project Milestones and Revisions Hi Folks, In recent months, the NEWTON Surname DNA Project has surpassed the 50 member mark. We are now what is unofficially considered a "big" project. I want to thank all the participants who have helped by donating their DNA, and/or money, and/or time. I also want to thank anyone who has helped to advance NEWTON genealogy. Finally, I want to thank my co-admin, Phin Newton, for his help in sorting data, contacting participants, and particularly for helping people of the type "J" DNA get linked up to progenitor Richard Newton. As you may know, each "new" DNA type gets a new letter, incrementing alphabetically. In recent months we have also used up all the letters. A type "Z" NEWTON DNA exists, and more types evidently will be on the way. If the DNA project has shown us nothing else, it is that the derivation of NEWTON as a surname is very diverse, or, as they say, heterophyletic. All these factors and more make it now impossible for me to continue to maintain the project website to the degree that I think it needs. Therefore, I am putting this project on the equivalent of auto-pilot. The testing company makes a webpage automatically which will provide the raw data. The old website at rootsweb will continue in its present state, more or less. There will be reciprocal links in each. This means all the current data will be shown without need for me to update the existing project page for people to see it. The downside is that the explicit descent will not be shown in association with the new data from here on out, except for what we can get the participants themselves to put in their own webpage at the testing company, or by posting on various websites by parties privy to the information. I hope to adopt some registration orthodoxy to ensure that no information is lost. When the changes are complete, I will include the link to the continuing project data view at the company's website here, which is the current project webpage: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gbonner/newtondna/ Thanks again to everyone who made this project such a success that it broke me. This is a good problem to have :) Sincerely, Gregg Bonner NEWTON Surname DNA Project Group Administrator --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEWTON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message