Hello Everyone, Just a couple of updates. First, they just announced that the Queen Mother of England has died at 101. God Save the King. I heard from Relative Genetics in response to my queries about adding new participants to our project that have contacted me in recent days. The word from them is that since they had already received our initial round of samples and they are wrapping up the testing on those, that any new participants at this point would be considered as a new test, requiring the full fee of $245.00. Rather than adding any new participants, it will be better to wait until we have results back from our first group. Once we have those results and have digested their meaning, determined connections between branches, etc., I can then judge the response and see what interest there is in another round of testing. Should we proceed with another round, we can get the same type of discount we received previously. The price will depend on the number of participants as before. In other news, I have been working with Bob Maley on his US GeoGen Project by coordinating the Virginia State page. It is now on line at http://papayne.rootsweb.com/geogen/va-geogen.html, however, the search engine is not useful yet. The site is waiting to be indexed before the search engine will work. For those of you who might not be familiar with this project, it is a nationwide effort to list the locations (complete with the Latitude/Longitude for GPS users) of all state cemeteries and other sites of genealogical or historical interest. A very ambitious project that I immediately took too. The National Page is located at http://geogen.org/ Regards, Patrick Payne

> First, they just announced that the Queen Mother of England has died at > 101. God Save the King. And which King would that be? Queen Elizabeth II still going strong as she approaches her Golden Jubilee, despite the recent deaths of both her sister and mother, as far as those of us on this side of the Atlantic are aware. Rachel Bedfordshire, UK