Hello Julie, Have updated my ancestor info. I wondered why the place info never showed up! Now I know. Z63 result due early March - so may be joining your project. Regards, Stuart Kit B1292 On 17 February 2012 07:44, Julie Frame Falk <jdf4072@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All > > If you could spare a few minutes of your valuable time – I am seeking your > cooperation on a fairly simple task! Volunteer administrators in various > projects often visit other publicly viewable project pages at FTDNA to > acquire relevant data, especially from the large Haplogroup projects such > as I1, and CE Normans etc. which are my main ports of call for the I1>Z58+ > and I1>Z63+ Project. Currently, I am tracking Z63+, and Z58+ and all of > the SNPs downstream of Z58 to show on both a Surname SNP Tree and also SNP > Maps, for our members. The country of origin of the Most Distant Ancestor > on the paternal side is vital information for these purposes. However, in > many instances, this information is not available on the publicly viewable > Results and SNP pages. For example – see the I1 Project SNP page here: > > http://www.familytreedna.com/public/yDNA_I1/default.aspx?section=ysnp > > This is a very large page and takes a lot of searching for various SNP > results, but even at the top there are many gaps in the *Paternal Ancestor > Name* field where not even a surname is viewable. Unfortunately, if > someone has tested positive for a SNP that I am personally tracking, and I > cannot see a surname or place of origin, then it’s a loss to our project > even if the tester is not one of our members yet. However, the people who > write in Name, Town, County/State and Country of origin in the *Paternal > Ancestor Name* field are helping us all enormously! We cannot even view > Country of Origin from the public Results and SNP pages, so the collectors > of such information really need your assistance. If your ancestor details > need updating, this is very easy for you to do: > > 1. Log into your personal page at FTDNA > > 2. Select *My Account* from the top menu bar > > 3. Select *Most Distant Ancestors* > > 4. Under *Direct Paternal* select Country of Origin from the drop > down list, > > 5. In the *Name* field, fill in as much info as you can: > Name/Birthyear/Town/County/Country ID abbreviation. > > 6. *Save* > > Thank you in advance for your cooperation! > > Kindest regards > > Julie Frame Falk (Project Administrator) > > I1>Z58+ and I1>Z63+ Project, Frame DNA Project, Frain DNA Project, Bemis > DNA Project > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-I-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message