I organize project members by haplogroup (or subclade), first, then by family, second. It's one reason I press at least one member of each family to be deep SNP tested, so it breaks up Haplogroup R1b and makes organizing them easier. In the case of my surname projects, this is an example of how I group members in the FTDNA version of the web site: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/corbin/default.aspx?section=yresults In this case, each haplogroup subclade is also a family. On my version of the project web site, I provide a "Legend to Progenitors": http://dgmweb.net/DNA/Corbin/CorbinDNA-results.html#Progenitors And, at the top of this page, a navigation bar to the different haplogroups. I think if you're going to group your members, you should make the groups useful, which usually means grouping them by their genetic relatedness, not some arbitrary designation. The haplogroup is a great tool for organizing haplotypes. Diana > -----Original Message----- > From: y-dna-projects-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:y-dna-projects- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Taylor > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:53 PM > To: y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Y-DNA-projects] Designating Groups > > I'd like to ask how other projects name or designate the groups or clusters they find. > Are there any really great ideas out there? > > Our Taylor project is currently doing it by number in the order we find them. Thus > the first found is "Group 01" and the most recent is "Group 41". > > A couple of us aren't thrilled by our system; it results in jumping from one > haplogroup to another. (01 is haplogroup I1, 02 is R1b.) Given the re-education job > needed if we change, we can probably afford to change only once. > > I'm aware that our sister project (Ancestry DNA's Taylor project) uses the name of the > earliest-joined project member in the group, e.g., "Closely related to John Doe > Taylor". > > What other systems are there? What's good about them? What are the drawbacks? > > I'd appreciate the feedback. > -rt_/) > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to Y-DNA-PROJECTS- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject > and the body of the message