My suggestion was really tongue-in-cheek because I can't imagine raising that amount of money. But the "five" are our root M253*, who are negative for both DF29 and Z131 - at least, these are the only five that turned up on my search of the Hg I1 haplogroup projects at FTDNA: http://dgmweb.net/DNA/matrices/HgI1/HgI1_matrix_M253.html#M253* Diana > From: Kenneth Nordtvedt > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 12:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [yDNAhgI] BigY for DF29- > > "All five" what? What five places in the Tree gain this special attention? > > > > Kenneth Nordtvedt > > Haplogroup I Clade Modalities and Trees at: > http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net > > -----Original Message----- > From: Diana Gale Matthiesen > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 10:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [yDNAhgI] BigY for DF29- > > Let's fund all five. Now *that* would be interesting!! > > > > From: Kenneth Nordtvedt > > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 11:31 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [yDNAhgI] BigY for DF29- > > > > Double that cost! Isolated single BigY tests have much, much, much less > > value than paired tests where the two are from same clade.