I received the email reprinted below, and thought it may be of interest to those of you on this list who have taken a DNA test. If you took your test with FTDNA, it is free to join the project described below. Reminder, if your DIRECT MALE ANCESTOR (Y-DNA test), OR DIRECT FEMALE ANCESTOR was Quaker (mtDNA test), please also join the British Quaker DNA project. That project is also free to join if you've already done DNA testing through FTDNA. Here is the website; take a look around and see if there are any of your Quaker surnames already on the site!! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/britishquakers Susan > My name is Richard Stevens, and I am the Group Administrator of the R-P312 and Subclades Project. If you are P312+ (check in the upper right of your FTDNA "DYS Values" page if you aren't sure), please join the R-P312 and Subclades Project. To do so just click on the little "Join" icon on the left side of your FTDNA personal homepages. Change the search box on the left from "Equals" to "Contains" and type "P312" (minus the quotes) in the search box on the right. Click on "Search." When the name of the R-P312 and Subclades Project appears, click on it and then on the "Join" button at the bottom. > > If have not yet had FTDNA's Deep Clade-R test, please consider ordering it. If you get a P312+ result, please join the R-P312 and Subclades Project. > > In late October of this year a brand new SNP was discovered downstream of P312. It is called L21. Right now it is very frequent in the Celtic areas of the British Isles and among the small sample of Germans who have been tested for it. If you are P312+, please order the L21 test. It is available now from FTDNA's "Advanced Orders" menu. I cannot promise a positive result, but please help us find out whether or not L21 originated among the Bronze Age Celts of Western Germany, which is what some of us believe right now. > > Please email me at [email protected] if you have any questions. > > Thanks! > > Sincerely, > Richard Stevens > R-P312 and Subclades Project