The following new message has been added to the Williams Genealogy Forums, on the Williams DNA Project board under the existing topic of Re: How to get those in a group to communicate??... -------------------------------- Lynda and Gerri, You bring up an excellent point. Part of the whole reason to participate in the testing is to make contact with other folks who descend from the same ancestry as yourself, in hopes of fleshing out your genealogies. To take the test and then remain silent is both confusing and a waste of money! In the process of getting the project tracking spreadsheet I use converted to a database, I am having to rewrite the results pages. At one point, i put the question out there about publicising everyones email address...and the overwhelming response was "yes". So, in the next iteration of the results pages, I am going to make each persons kit number link to their email address. This way, every person has a way to be contacted about their kit. Another idea I have that would require A LOT of feedback from EVERYONE is to put together a contact sheet for the participants, which would have address and phone numbers of all the project participants, and make that available to y'all. I am thinking that this would help provide more avenues of communication. Finally, I have started creating new Forum boards just for the matched groups to have a place to converse. I put them in the forums because there are a large number of folks who are not project participants who are VERY interested in the families involved with the testing and the group conversations being public may also help spurn conversation. Just to give you an idea of how many people are here, the Forums averages about 4,000 hits each month. How many of those are cousins? Thoughts? - Adrian