This message is from your Volunteer Group Administrator (Barbara Poythress Neal) of our Poythress/Poytress Surname Y-DNA Group Study. It's written in response to Maynard's wish for more info after reading the Wall St Journal article that he alerted us to last week. I am aware of 2 databases where thousands of men who've had their DNA tested have registered their DNA results: One of those database sites is sponsored by FamilyTreeDNA: Ysearch. You can connect to this database to search it (or to contribute your own readings to it confidentially) about halfway down the main page of FamilyTreeDNA, which is (www.familytreedna.com ) Just click on Ysearch there. With this database two Poythress folks are already registered - both shown as descendants of John Lewis Poythress (probably both participants in our Study). One User put my name as the Contact Person. I've asked that User to please edit my name out, since when anyone clicks on the link to send an email to that User, the email goes to the person who registered there, not to me. (I do plan to register my own line's DNA readings there, and may list for that entry the "Contact Person" name of BPN.) While you are at Ysearch, you can get a world map of all the locations where any particular Haplogroup is located, based on folks of that Haplogroup who have registered with Ysearch. Kinda neat. The other database site I've learned of, is one sponsored by DNA Heritage: www.ybase.org This one currently has no Poythress or Poytress registered there, though it does have various P surnames that may be of interest to some of you: Portas; Porteous; Porteus; Porthouse; Portice; Portis; Portteus; Portus. At this one, YBase, the format lists the DNA readings in an order somewhat shuffled from the order we got our results in. So if you are trying to compare readings for our participants with any of the above names, be sure to read the directions about converting our GATA-H4 reading to the YBase TAGA-H4 reading. Maynard, you & any of our other Study participants, are welcome to register at either/both of those databases. OTHER DNA INFO: A lot of other info about DNA is available at the main FamilyTreeDNA website, www.familytreedna.com Just keep clicking on all the various links from the main homesite, and from within each of the places you get from there; you can learn a lot. Anyone can subscribe to their approximately-monthly newsletter, Facts & Genes. One signs up for it at: http://www.familytreeDNA.com/fgregister.asp And past issues of that newsletter cover many issues. Those can be found online at FamilyTreeDNA.com, or just use this link for the past issues of Facts & Genes: http://www.familytreeDNA.com/facts_genes.asp?act=past OTHER SOURCES FOR DNA INFO: Anyone can also search the Archives of GENEALOGY-DNA-L, which is a subscription email List hosted by RootsWeb. There are 2 ways to search the Archives of GENEALOGY-DNA-L (just as there are 2 ways to search our own Poythress-List): 1. You can *search* the GENEALOGY-DNA-L archives for any query-word, at: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=GENEALOGY-DNA 2. You can *browse* the GENEALOGY-DNA-L archives, by year & month, looking thru the subject-lines of messages & clicking on any that look interesting, at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGY-DNA/ Of course anyone can also subscribe to their RootsWeb-hosted email-subscription list -- but I would only recommend that for those interested in reading a LOT of messages. I tried it for a while in 2003 when there were about 1,000 emails each month. Now there are about 2,500 emails each month! Anyone interested in subscribing should send a message just captioned "subscribe" (with no further content) to either: GENEALOGY-DNA-L-request@rootsweb.com or GENEALOGY-DNA-D-request@rootsweb.com (for the digest version)