This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dereddi Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southcarolina.counties.abbeville/185.1.1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Steve, The project is going rather well, if sometimes confusingly so... That latter comment has to do with the wealth of multiple matches that we are finding amongst the participants. We have results for about 150 individuals, now. Of those, 44 fit into 17 groups of genetic cousins. Then, we have several groups that we would create if we could discriminate amongst all of our seemingly related R1b haplogroup Taylors. There are at least two such fellows who match members of multiple unrelated groups. They have 25 marker results that could place them into one of several groups or create new groups of genetic cousins. This used to be a very common problem with the short 12 marker results, but now it is becoming a bit of a problem with even 25 marker results. Overnight, Dr. Leigh Taylor (my co-admin for the project) noticed a match for a new member of the project). We are awaiting a reply from the two individuals whose results match exactly at 25 markers. That's another group of genetic cousins who may be about to be recognized. We have posted 30 or 40-odd short genealogies for some of our participants in our Results tab. This provides a useful set of Taylor genealogies to review. I just provided contact information for a Taylor researcher who saw a common ancestral name in one of those -very- short genealogies. Our project can be viewed here: Taylor Family Genes http://www.familytreedna.com/public/taylorfamilygenes/index.aspx If you choose to view the Y-DNA results, then be prepared for a short wait. The grouped and un-grouped members' results can take some time to load and display properly. Dale Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.