Oooooh! Good question!! I've seen projects which group first by haplogroup, then by Lineage 1, Lineage 2. The group where I co-admin, it was initially set up by founding couple, but then, everybody is pretty much R1b1b2. In the tiny group I manage myself, we so far have R1b1b2 and J2; the first is clearly English, the second French, and are so labeled. Lisa On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Ralph Taylor wrote: > 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_/)