A major DNA genealogy test company has released their annual year end incentives for new customers. If you have anyone you want to test or know someone who wants to do a DNA test, now is the time to contact your DNA surname project administrator and inquire. The offer is limited. http://www.familytreedna.com/default.asp Current News Letter http://www.familytreeDNA.com/facts_genes.asp There are many researchers out there who are working with our YDNA haplotypes that we post on Ysearch to identify what can be learned from our DNA results in terms of common ancestry. Post your YDNA haplotype on Ysearch and list the most accurate ancestral information you can to aid in this research. We will all be the benefits of this analysis. http://www.ysearch.org/ Season's Greetings, John Carr Carr Surname Genetic Genealogy Project Administrator Linked to the Scottish Clans DNA Project and the Border Reiver DNA Project

Another offer for those wanting to learn more about ancestral relationships: Contact me if you are interested and we'll see how many people we can group together. 'Ethnoancestry is prepared to drop the bottom out of things and spill a bit of red ink if necessary (my accountant is going to tear his hair out) if you can promise us 10, yes just 10 (ok, almost 10 will do), particpants willing to take the R1b FT Upgrade Test which involves S21, S26, S29 and S28 (R1b1c9 through 10). We hope to tease a few pockets of each from locations in contries such as Spain where they "seem few and far between" (perhaps their are regions where one or more will predominate but no one has explored this in any depth at all) so we can get an idea whether the apparent dividing lines between these downstream subgroups are as stable as they appear to be. One would think that with markers of an apparent age very close to Daddy M269, S21 and S28 would be plastered all over Western Europe but this is not the case. We would also like to know if S28 is more common than R1b1c* as one moves further and further east. Would the Administrators please contact me if they wish to avail themselves of this offer.' These is also a deal on 5 new I1a SNPs for haplogroup identification, this is for those who want the excitement of being on the leading edge of DNA genetics research. This testing will determine what can be learned from these SNP's in terms identifying ancestral origins. EA also has some other offers, check out their website for details. www.ethnodna.com Some of these offers are time limited, so get em while they are hot. Hopefully other companies will have similar announcements. I will let you know if I see any. You can let us know if you see anything advertised. Thank you, John Carr jcarrgensearch@earthlink.net

Hi John In early December I became interested in your S-series test, so have purchased it and am awaiting the kit to send of the sample to London. My interest stems fro the fact that my SNP(R1b1c*)/STR/surname studies/paternal genealogy suggest my origins are in the Borders region. My predictions have been that the deep ancestral roots come from either - (a) The Dalriadan Scotti in their incursion as the Romans left Britain or (b) The Celtic Rhineland; descendents of a Roman auxiliary soldier posted to Hadrians Wall/Velantia Province - this family stayed behind in the Borders area when Roman colleagues abandoned Britain to return to their Italian homeland. The odds (60:40) are in favour of Rhineland origins, and your S-series test might settle the issue either way; I anticipate a positive result in February as it looks likely these markers focus more towards eastern Europe sub-groups. Can you give me some idea of the time window these SNPs signify? are they of the order 3000 or 10000 yrs ago? Regards Derek Ham John Carr <jcarrgensearch@earthlink.net> wrote: Another offer for those wanting to learn more about ancestral relationships: Contact me if you are interested and we'll see how many people we can group together. 'Ethnoancestry is prepared to drop the bottom out of things and spill a bit of red ink if necessary (my accountant is going to tear his hair out) if you can promise us 10, yes just 10 (ok, almost 10 will do), particpants willing to take the R1b FT Upgrade Test which involves S21, S26, S29 and S28 (R1b1c9 through 10). We hope to tease a few pockets of each from locations in contries such as Spain where they "seem few and far between" (perhaps their are regions where one or more will predominate but no one has explored this in any depth at all) so we can get an idea whether the apparent dividing lines between these downstream subgroups are as stable as they appear to be. One would think that with markers of an apparent age very close to Daddy M269, S21 and S28 would be plastered all over Western Europe but this is not the case. We would also like to know if S28 is more common than R1b1c* as one moves further and further east. Would the Administrators please contact me if they wish to avail themselves of this offer.' These is also a deal on 5 new I1a SNPs for haplogroup identification, this is for those who want the excitement of being on the leading edge of DNA genetics research. This testing will determine what can be learned from these SNP's in terms identifying ancestral origins. EA also has some other offers, check out their website for details. www.ethnodna.com Some of these offers are time limited, so get em while they are hot. Hopefully other companies will have similar announcements. I will let you know if I see any. You can let us know if you see anything advertised. Thank you, John Carr jcarrgensearch@earthlink.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOT-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message