DNA. Something we all can share with each other this holiday season - the basic building blocks of humanity in all its various expressions! For those of us interested in the specific Queen variety DNA, I wish you a great Christmas and hope that the year to come is better than the last, and that we all break through our brick walls - one way or another. Now, I have been sort of quiet lately. Got myself a little overextended with the kids, college applications, theatre productions, symphony concerts, work, and all sorts of activities that one president long ago called being a "thousand points of light". Well, I didn't reach a thousand, but felt like I got pretty dang close! As we move forward to the close of this year, I hope to relax (yeah, right!) and spend some time catching up with all the emails on the list that I marked of interest. There have been some new results posted - and I have continued to make changes to the web-spreadsheet to provide different ways to access and enjoy debating the results. I have also dropped the graphics from the pages. The pages were approaching 1 MB in size without the graphics and I know that makes for a long download for some of you. So I have simplified things, and at the top of the page, provided links to two versions of the results. I am also going to spend some time also working on the FTDNA results pages and making them easily available. Just takes a little time. I still need to get some lineage information from many of you to make the lineage version complete. Some may have provided, and I will find when I catch up on my emails. Anyway, come New Year's day, look for me in the grandstands at the Tournament of Rose Parade. My son's high school band is marching this year, and I think they are the last band in the parade, near the end! I'll be the good-looking bald guy waving wildly! Rolla

I'll be the > good-looking bald guy waving wildly! > > Rolla Forget the waving wildly or the Rogaine stuff. If you really wanna grow hair, here's the story from an old Queen of Toot Holler back up in the Smokies: Shoot yerself a 'possum on a full moon night. Dress and bake the 'possum at 425 degrees for 2.5 hours... use a deep baking pan. After 2.5 hours, drain the grease into a mop bucket. To the grease add 2.5 handfulls of stuff from the cow stall. (Dried stuff) Stir for 2.5 minutes non-stop. Each night for 2.5 weeks, apply liberally to the bald areas. Cover the concotion with a heavy rag so as not to mess up the couch. (Yes, you'll be sleeping on the couch during the treatment period....if even in the house) After 2.5 weeks of treatment, check for hair growth. If there is growth, continue the treatment for 2.5 years or until you have enough. Disclaimer: I am neither a medical doctor nor a witch doctor. I'm only passing on what I heard. Me

Gene, just to clarify and make sure I get this right, you said "Shoot yerself a 'possum on a full moon night. Dress and bake the 'possum" What kind of dress would you recommend? Since I live out here in Southern California, I was thinking about using a Sun Dress, but since I will be shootin' said 'possum on a full moon night, I was a wonderin' if it might be more appropriate to use an evening dress, perhaps one of the cast offs of a Hollywood starlet, or sumpin like Miss USA might not be needin while she finishes rehab in Palm Springs? Now technically, I can't shoot no possum here in the suburbs of Los Angeles, but if I can run it down with a car, would that work just the same? I'll get back to you on the rest of the recipe. My oldest boy, who is gradiatin high school soon, had to stop readin it to me so he could go out and find a mop bucket and figure out how to make a cow stall. I told him to just startle the cow and see what happens. Where does the "stuff" come from when the cow stalls? Sounds like it might be a powerful recipe, especially since you have to apply it liberally! If we was to have to apply it like a conservative, I might not be able to use my food stamps to buy the mop, rags and couch I would be laying on while drawing unemployment while a waitin for my hair to grow. Since I will be in denial, that 2.5 years will go buy pretty slow. Good thing I asked for box set of Beverly Hillbilly DVDs for Christmas. I sure do love getting those home movies from kinfolk what ain't come to Californi. Now you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Now where did that dad burn boy go! Rolla