ONE YEAR of Y-DNA You guessed it! Happy Anniversary to the Queens, Past, Present and Future*. We now have a year of DNA experience behind us and -----some interesting conundrums. Will we press on, will we make new discoveries, will we succeed????? Yes, Yes, Yes. Our Y-DNA will be stored for 25 years! We can't lose! ANNIVERSARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Here's the picture: Some 45 Queens have joined our effort, coaxed by worthy cousins, friends, and hangers-on. They have invested money and time, and many hours of genealogy work: Y-DNA 12 Marker = $99, group. Y-DNA 25-Marker = $169. Y-DNA 36-Marker = $219. We have an interesting website aimed at explaining the results of our 40 or so kits. For that, color and all, we can thank ROLLA QUEEN, Queen Web Master, who, since last September, has done the lion's share of keeping up with the chart changes on a week to week basis and giving us a visual we can understand. RITA BARTMESS and PAULETTE DUNN signed on as Co-Administrators and traveled to Houston for Family Tree's first ever DNA Conference last October, and are standing by for the 2005 Conference in Virginia. Rita and Paulette handle our Queen General Fund where we take contributions. A committee decides the dispursal. QUEEN-LIST, WE CAN'T DO WITHOUT YOU Thanks, for eternity, to CAROL (and Mandy) for establishing Queen-List so that we can get on the Web early in the morning, or late at night, and explore what's running through our genealogical minds. I equate it with the Running of the Bulls in Spain, where they resurfaced the streets to keep the bulls from stumbling and falling....it didn't work. No amount of lovely facilitations [cemeteries, family histories, DNA] will ever take the place of trial-and-error discussions in working out our brick walls; for that we have Queen-List. We've worked on Pleasant and Alfred, and Henson; We plan to work on Charles, Francis, and Ohio. Shall we say, we have plenty of work ahead of us? * Now we have our future before us, represented by Mr. Jackson Wesley Queen, our 2005 Queen Mascot, born May 11, 2005, to Charlton and Carmen. Welcome to the Queen Family, Jackson! Katy McMillen, Group Administrator, Queen Y-DNA http://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.asp?code=X96855&special=True