Recently Maynard alerted us to a story in the Wall Street Journal about Y-DNA. In that story, the author mentioned that he was in the R1b Haplogroup, a rather common grouping from the British Isles. As Maynard mentioned, this was the same Haplogroup as most of our Poythress/Poytress Surname Y-DNA Study participants. Yesterday I noticed that FamilyTreeDNA has now further refined our own Haplogroup to R1b1. I'm not sure what recent day this Haplogroup label changed to show the further refinement of our part of the larger R1b grouping, but it shows on each of the formerly-just-R1b participant's personal page at the FamilyTreeDNA website. Barbara Poythress Neal, Volunteer Group Administrator of the Poythress/Poytress Surname Y-DNA Study