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    1. [Y-DNA-projects] Designating Groups
    2. Ralph Taylor
    3. 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_/)

    09/29/2010 10:53:04